More AZs in its Asian backyard also planned
Alibaba Cloud announced on Wednesday it will open its first region in Mexico and expand with building new datacenters across Southeast Asia.to take advantage of trade treaties that make it easier to access the US market than is possible from China amid current diplomatic tensions.The Chinese cloud champ also offered a three-year window for its deployment of extra resources in Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and South Korea.
The Chinese tech giant also indicated it would open its generative AI development platform, Model Studio, through its Singapore availability zone so that its LLM, Qwen, can be accessed internationally.The discounts coincided with the introduction of cheap AI services from ByteDance, which spurred Baidu to cut the price of some services to zero.
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