Alibaba Cloud
The latest Alibaba Cloud coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Alibaba's 2.4T Qwen3.8 AI Is a Cloud-Only Preview: What That Means for You
Alibaba on July 19 previewed Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, a 2.4 trillion-parameter AI model it claims trails only Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5—but the announcement arrived with no benchmark scores, no...
Inside DingTalk: Alibaba’s AI-Powered Workflow Control Plane Lands on Windows
DingTalk, Alibaba Group’s workplace collaboration juggernaut, quietly became the operating system for millions of Chinese businesses before most of the Western world had ever heard of it. Launched...
Alibaba Cloud’s AI Surge: 26% Revenue Jump, $52B Capex, and the Battle for Asia’s Cloud Future Against Azure and AWS
Alibaba’s Cloud Intelligence group just posted a 26% revenue surge to RMB 33.4 billion ($4.66 billion) in the first quarter of fiscal 2026, propelled by AI product revenues that have now grown at...
Alibaba Slashes AI API Prices 97% Amid $53 Billion Cloud Bet: Can Open-Source Momentum Pay Off?
Alibaba has cut API prices by as much as 97% in China—a dramatic move that highlights the brutal pricing war now raging in the AI services market. The deep discount comes just as the Chinese giant...
Alibaba's $53B Cloud Bet Fuels Web3 Infrastructure Rush Among AWS, Google, Microsoft
Alibaba Group’s announcement that it will invest RMB 380 billion (approximately $53 billion) over the next three years into AI and cloud infrastructure is more than a single company’s technology...
Microsoft's £1B UK Cloud Licensing Lawsuit: What It Means for Businesses
Microsoft is facing a £1 billion class-action lawsuit in the UK over allegations of anti-competitive cloud licensing practices that allegedly disadvantaged businesses using rival cloud services. The...
2025 Cloud Market: AI, Sustainability & Hybrid Cloud Reshape Provider Rivalry
The cloud computing market is undergoing rapid transformation as we approach 2025, with AI integration, sustainability, and hybrid cloud solutions leading the charge. Enterprises are increasingly...
Microsoft Faces £2.5B UK Lawsuit Over Alleged Software Licensing Overcharges
The corridors of power in Redmond are echoing with the footsteps of legal process servers once again, as Microsoft faces a groundbreaking £2.5 billion class action lawsuit in London's Competition...
UK Class-Action Lawsuit Seeks £1 Billion Over Microsoft's Cloud Licensing Since 2015
Overview Microsoft is currently facing a significant legal challenge in the United Kingdom, where it is embroiled in a £1 billion class-action lawsuit over its cloud computing and software licensing...
How Microsoft’s Licensing Practices Are Shaping Cloud Competition and Pricing Dynamics
Introduction Microsoft’s licensing practices, specifically around Windows Server and Office, have become a central issue in global cloud computing competition. Allegations of restrictive licensing,...