Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, announced Thursday it will invest over $60 million in the next fiscal year to empower its partner ecosystem and accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) innovation.
The investment will be strategically allocated to collaborative marketing campaigns, incentive rebate programs, and capability-building initiatives, fostering mutually beneficial growth between the cloud provider and its partners, the firm said in a statement.
The commitment is designed to help partners expand their customer base, enhance their technical expertise, and accelerate the adoption of advanced cloud and AI solutions for businesses globally.
“Our partners are the catalysts for customer success, and this significant investment is a testament to our commitment to a shared growth model,” said Raymond Ma, Vice President of Global Partners & Alliances, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence.
“By equipping our partners with advanced resources, dedicated incentives, and direct access to our cutting-edge AI technologies like our Qwen large language models, we are not just building a channel,
“Together, we are fostering a synergistic ecosystem that will accelerate digital transformation and unlock new possibilities for businesses globally in the AI era,” he added.
This new investment is underscored by a series of new and expanded partnerships with leading technology providers worldwide including Dify, Squirro, PingCAP, Atos, Crayon, DXC Technology, Bespin Global Indonesia, Electrum Cloud.
Dify, a leading agentic AI application development platform has teamed up with Alibaba Cloud to bring its Dify Enterprise to the Alibaba Cloud Global Marketplace.
The partnership combines Dify’s cutting-edge AI workflow orchestration and powerful LLMOps capabilities with Alibaba Cloud’s robust infrastructure and comprehensive ecosystem,
which includes the Model Studio generative AI platform.
This integration will empower enterprises of all sizes to build and deploy LLM-powered applications more easily and with greater productivity than ever before.
Meanwhile, Squirro, a leading enterprise-ready generative AI provider specializing in search, insights, and automation has partnered with Alibaba Cloud, launching the Squirro Gen AI Platform on the Alibaba Cloud Marketplace.
This collaboration brings Squirro’s low-code, enterprise-ready Gen AI platform to customers starting in Asia-Pacific, equipping businesses in financial services, manufacturing, and retail with advanced AI-powered decision intelligence capabilities.
By combining Alibaba Cloud’s robust global infrastructure with Squirro’s AI and data analytics expertise, the partnership aims to accelerate digital transformation and operational efficiency for business globally.
PingCAP has also forged strategic partnership with Alibaba Cloud to bring its advanced distributed SQL database TiDB on Alibaba Cloud Marketplace.
This collaboration delivers a powerful, AI-ready database solution that simplifies the development and deployment of AI applications with serverless elasticity, built-in vector search and HTAP (Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing) capabilities for unified real-time analytics and transactional workflows.
By integrating TiDB’s cloud native architecture with Alibaba
Cloud’s global infrastructure, the partnership empowers businesses with unmatched scalability, resilience, and agility—unlocking new possibilities for data-driven innovation worldwide.
Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, and Alibaba Cloud announced an expanded international reseller partnership in addition to the existing Managed Service Provider partnership.
Through this collaboration, Atos becomes a Reseller Partner for Alibaba Cloud, bringing Alibaba Cloud’s full portfolio of cloud infrastructure, AI models and advanced technologies to enterprise customers in International Markets.
This offering is further enhanced by Atos’s extensive expertise in cloud migration, managed services, AI and industry-specific digital transformation, enabling organizations to accelerate their journey to the cloud and drive innovation.
Building on the global collaboration announced earlier this year between Crayon Group and Alibaba Cloud, Crayon is expanding its regional distribution capability in Southeast
Asia through the partnership with Alibaba, appointing Crayon Singapore and Crayon Philippines as official regional resellers of Alibaba Cloud.
This partnership brings MSPs and ISVs direct access to Alibaba Cloud technologies, backed by Crayon’s deep cloud, security and AI expertise, helping partners drive cloud adoption, digital transformation, and accelerate go-to-market.
DXC Technology, a global information technology (IT) leader that enables enterprises to manage mission-critical systems and operations, has als partnered with Alibaba Cloud to bring its advanced cloud solutions and world-class AI services to Asian markets.
By combining DXC’s expertise in IT modernization and data architecture optimization with Alibaba Cloud’s secure cloud infrastructure and cutting-edge AI capabilities, the collaboration seeks to elevate performance, competitiveness, and customer experience across clients’ IT ecosystems.
Bespin Global Indonesia, a leading cloud managed service provider with deep expertise in cloud management, has also entered a strategic partnership with Alibaba Cloud as its official Managed Service Provider (MSP) partner in Indonesia.
This collaboration strengthens Bespin Global Indonesia’s commitment to accelerating Al-powered innovation and cloud adoption across industries in the region.
The partnership aims to deliver truly secure, scalable, and cost-effective solutions that empower enterprises to innovate faster, operate more efficiently, and grow sustainably in the Al era.
Electrum Cloud, a member of the CloudMile Group in Indonesia, helps businesses accelerate digital transformation through cloud and AI technologies.
In partnership with Alibaba Cloud, both parties will deliver customized AI solutions, technical support, and strategic advisory services to businesses of all sizes across the country.
The collaboration will also focus on AI talent development and empowering the developer community to foster greater innovation and creativity.
Alibaba Cloud currently works with about 12,000 partners worldwide, including Salesforce, Fortinet, IBM and Neo4j.
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