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Alibaba Cloud, the data intelligence center of the Alibaba Group, announced the opening of its fourth data center in Japan to meet growing demand for cloud and AI services in the country.
The new data center in Tokyo offers a comprehensive range of cloud computing products, from storage, containers, networks, high-performance computing, security, databases, to developer services. It also complies with Japan’s strict security and compliance regulations. With the launch of its fourth data center, Alibaba Cloud will provide its Japanese customers with high availability, exceptional resilience, and robust disaster recovery capabilities.
With this new facility, Alibaba Cloud’s global infrastructure has expanded to 29 regions and 94 availability zones. Alibaba Cloud provides a secure, scalable, robust, and sustainable cloud infrastructure to support the digital innovation of customers around the world.
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To meet the growing demand for AI services in Japan, Alibaba Cloud plans to launch its AI development platform, Model Studio, in Japan later this year. The platform will provide inference services for open-source and commercial Qwen models, and will gradually add functions such as batch data processing, fine-tuning, and deployment. This will enable Japanese developers and businesses to develop custom AI models and applications more efficiently and at lower cost.
Since establishing its first data center in Tokyo in 2016, Alibaba Cloud has supported Japanese customers in sectors such as gaming, entertainment, retail, and IT, and has since introduced a range of cutting-edge cloud and AI services to the Japanese market to meet growing demand for cloud-based AI advancements.
Over the past year, Alibaba Cloud has been chosen as a trusted cloud service provider and partner by Japanese customers. FLUX, a Tokyo-based AI startup, partnered with Alibaba Cloud to develop a 32 billion-parameter Japanese language model based on Qwen. This model provides more reliable and contextual answers to queries specific to the financial industry. Additionally, and factory, a digital manga development and production studio, collaborated with Alibaba Cloud to jointly develop AI tools to improve efficiency and creativity in manga production. Furthermore, IT service consulting firm AI Storm announced a partnership with Alibaba Cloud to provide AI image generation tools and enterprise AI agents to organizations across Japan, including production studios, creative agencies, and educational institutions.
SOURCE: PRTimes
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