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Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud's EMR Serverless Spark now processes images and video in plain SQL, no Python needed
Alibaba Cloud’s EMR Serverless Spark now supports images and video frames directly in SQL, letting data engineers skip Python overhead. A case study on autonomous driving data preprocessing shows automated ETL pipelines powered by Qwen vision models replacing manual annotation.
2026-07-09
Cloud Infrastructure
How alibaba cloud pushed its way into 20 gartner quadrants and what it means for the ai cloud race
Alibaba Cloud's analyst report haul for 2025 and 2026 shows a company intent on outflanking AWS and Azure in Asia and Oceania. With four Gartner emerging leader positions in generative AI, a leadership ranking in enterprise MaaS, and a first-ever inclusion in AI coding agents, the Chinese cloud giant is making a case for itself as a viable alternative, if trust and latency concerns can be overcome.
2026-07-08
Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba laid bare the 14-round problem that's bleeding AI agents dry
Alibaba Cloud's ANOLISA is a three-layer OS upgrade for the agent era, cutting token use by 30% and improving execution time by a similar margin. Designed for high-density agent deployment, it addresses security, observability, and inefficiency at the kernel level.
2026-05-26
Qwen3.7
The timezone loophole that cuts AI inference costs by 80%
Model Studio automatically slashes Qwen3.7-Max and Qwen3.7-Plus API costs by up to 80% during a nightly window that coincides with working hours across the US and Europe. No signup, no code changes, just cheaper inference for anyone who times their calls right.
2026-05-20
Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba's Anolisa v0.3 gives AI agents a rollback button and a security net you can measure
Alibaba Cloud's Agentic OS, Anolisa, reaches version 0.3 with a security module, real-time cost savings visible down to the token, and workspace snapshots that undo agent actions in milliseconds.
2026-05-07
Multi-agent architectures
Why Qoder gives every AI agent a boss
Qoder's Experts Mode replaces peer-to-peer multi-agent messaging with a single Leader that coordinates specialized experts asynchronously. The architecture reduces state explosion, improves quality across four dimensions, and extracts reusable skills after each task.
2026-03-11
Enterprise AI
Alibaba just gave enterprise teams a way to encode their expertise into AI plugins
Alibaba Cloud's QoderWork Plugins let teams encode their working knowledge, SOPs, and tool integrations into AI-executable suites. The first official set covers legal, finance, consulting, and product management, but the real target is letting domain experts build custom plugins without writing code.
2024-01-03
Vector Databases
Inside Alibaba's engineering push to make pgvector work at billion-vector scale
Alibaba Cloud details how it transformed pgvector from an open-source extension into a production-grade vector engine supporting billions of vectors with millisecond response times, through quantization, performance tuning, ecosystem tools, distributed scaling, and deep kernel integration.
2023-10-11
Database
Alibaba just cut 70% off database index bloat. The trick is in the prefixes.
Secondary indexes often dominate database storage, especially in SaaS and e-commerce. PolarDB-X introduces secondary prefix compression (SPC), a lightweight per-page dictionary scheme that reduces index space by 30% to 70% without heavy CPU overhead. Benchmarks show up to 47% throughput improvement in I/O-bound read workloads.
2020-10-22