{"id":412853,"date":"2025-09-10T10:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/412853\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T10:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:08:11","slug":"alibaba-holds-wide-lead-over-rivals-bytedance-huawei-tencent-in-chinas-ai-cloud-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/412853\/","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba holds wide lead over rivals ByteDance, Huawei, Tencent in China\u2019s AI cloud market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/alibaba?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">Alibaba Group Holding<\/a> captured more than a third of China\u2019s artificial intelligence cloud services market in the first half of this year, surpassing the combined share of its three closest rivals and solidifying its lead over competitors, according to a report from research firm Omdia.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">With a 35.8 per cent market share, Alibaba Cloud significantly outperformed ByteDance\u2019s Volcano Engine, which ranked second at 14.8 per cent. Huawei Cloud followed with 13.1 per cent, while Tencent Cloud held 7 per cent. Baidu Cloud placed fourth, with a 6.1 per cent share, according to the report published on Monday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Omdia forecast that the Chinese market for AI cloud services, comprising computing infrastructure optimised for generative AI tasks, would more than double in 2025 to 51.8 billion yuan (US$7.3 billion), up from 20.83 billion yuan in 2024. From 2025 to 2030, the sector was expected to grow at an annual rate of 26.8 per cent.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Alibaba, owner of the Post, is investing heavily in AI and cloud infrastructure, developing what it calls \u201cfull-stack AI capabilities\u201d. That includes its Qwen family of large language models, as well as a range of cloud servers, cloud container services, databases and developer tools.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alibaba Cloud\u2019s Apsara conference in Hangzhou, China, in September 2024. Photo: Xinhua\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/a54dcf70-0c77-459e-b435-642878638dd0_638779f5.jpg\" title=\"Alibaba Cloud\u2019s Apsara conference in Hangzhou, China, in September 2024. Photo: Xinhua\"\/>Alibaba Cloud\u2019s Apsara conference in Hangzhou, China, in September 2024. Photo: Xinhua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alibaba Group Holding captured more than a third of China\u2019s artificial intelligence cloud services market in the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[323,141897,18064,65599,9098,141899,51,70577,1395,26314,141896,1700,141894,141895,141898,31053,122395,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-412853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-cloud-services","10":"tag-alibaba","11":"tag-alibaba-cloud","12":"tag-alibaba-group-holding","13":"tag-baidu-cloud","14":"tag-business","15":"tag-bytedance","16":"tag-china","17":"tag-chinese-market","18":"tag-doubao","19":"tag-economy","20":"tag-eddie-wu-yongming","21":"tag-huawei-cloud","22":"tag-omdia","23":"tag-qwen","24":"tag-tencent-cloud","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115179454752188134","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}