Alibaba Cloud builds "Cloud + AI" technology platform to empower innovators and entrepreneurs to thrive in the intelligent era.

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, cloud computing, as an important infrastructure for AI computing power, has also ushered in new market opportunities. Cloud computing not only supports the training and deployment of large models but also provides flexible and convenient services for various AI applications. Therefore, "cloud + AI" is becoming the new infrastructure of the digital era. As the earliest service provider to enter the cloud computing field in China, Alibaba Cloud has witnessed the application and innovation of cloud computing in various industries. Recently, Alibaba Cloud launched the "Entrepreneur Program," which supports 30,000 startups annually, with each company eligible for up to 1 million cloud resources. Liu Xiangwen, President of Alibaba Cloud's Marketing Department, said that Alibaba Cloud has always insisted on being a technology platform company and has continuously increased its investment in technology to win market trust. Alibaba Cloud's "Entrepreneur Program" targets startups and supports their growth on the cloud through four major benefits: exclusive product services, cloud resource subsidies, entrepreneurial growth acceleration, and joint brand promotion. The program is open to startups in all fields, whether in AI or other areas, as long as they need to use cloud resources during the entrepreneurial process. Li Zhongyu, General Manager of Alibaba Cloud's Entrepreneurship Incubation Division, shared his observations on how startups are transforming with the cloud: first, going to the cloud has become the first choice for startups; second, the use of the cloud is gradually deepening. More and more startups are born and grow on the cloud, and cloud-native enterprises based on cloud services have a faster startup speed due to low-cost and rapid trial and error. Under this wave of AI technology, a large number of intelligent native enterprises are emerging on the cloud. At the launch event of the "Entrepreneur Program," Leke Sports and Shenyan Technology, as typical cloud-native and AI-native enterprises, shared their experiences of cooperation with Alibaba Cloud. Xia Dong, Co-founder and Co-CEO of Leke Sports, mentioned that Leke has built its own digital capabilities on Alibaba Cloud since its establishment, achieving a balance of cost, efficiency, elasticity, and flexibility with the help of Alibaba Cloud's digital and information capabilities. Qifan Chao, CEO of Shenyan Technology, stated that Shenyan has been conducting large-scale model training and deployment based on Alibaba Cloud's PAI platform since its inception. With the help of PAI platform's interactive programming, distributed storage, and model storage services, the engineering cost and risk of model training are reduced. Li Zhongyu emphasized that the "Entrepreneur Program" is not only about support but also about Alibaba Cloud and entrepreneurs' joint exploration and growth in the intelligent era. Alibaba Cloud hopes to enable users to face the intelligent era through easy-to-use and well-integrated products and services. Alibaba Cloud has formed a service map of artificial intelligence products and services, including the "Thousand Questions" large model, "Magic Stack" community, "Lingji" model service platform, Alibaba Cloud PAI platform, etc. All these services are open to large model startups and developers, providing comprehensive services including model training, inference, deployment, fine-tuning, evaluation, and productization, thereby continuously reducing the threshold for enterprises to obtain and use artificial intelligence. Liu Xiangwen, President of Alibaba Cloud's Marketing Department, said that Alibaba Cloud has always insisted on being a technology platform company during its 14-year growth journey and has witnessed the different stages of the startup cycle, accompanying the growth of startups in different eras. Countless enterprises are born on the cloud and grow into unicorns. "The development of our business is inseparable from the support and trust of countless entrepreneurs. Startups are an important customer group for us, and today's startups are the unicorns of the future.