Alibaba to open new data centers, tech giant unveils most powerful AI model

The Chinese Ecommerce company, Alibaba, announced on Wednesday, September 23, 2025 that it has planned to open its First of many AI data centres in major countries including Brazil, France, and Netherland as it aims to accelerates its global strategy for AI.

Moreover, the company has announced to launch new AI models and advance tech facilities in other countries like Mexico, Japan, South Korea and Dubai.

According to Alibaba, the new advancement will expand the company’s current network of 91 areas of operation to 29 regions over the coming years.

These planned data hubs will thus reinforce an existing framework that has already earned the enterprise high resilience, low-latency delivery and broad compliance within strict regulatory.

This expansion further supports Alibaba’s growing focus on AI alongside its core ecommerce business operations.

Why it matters?

Data centres are the backbone supply as required by the artificial intelligence advancement and cloud and cloud provisioning, facilitating the acquisition, processing and persistent storage of expansive datasets at large scale.

Moreover, earlier this year Alibaba disclosed a commitment of investing $380 Yuan, approximately USD $53 billion, directed to AI-linked infrastructure within a triennium horizon, determined conversion of corporate resources over the next three years as competition to develop advance AI capabilities intensifies among Chinese tech firms.

By establishing new data centres, Alibaba signals a strategic positioning intended to sustain a viable global competitive posture.

At the company’s Apsara Conference held on September 23, 2025, CEO Eddie Wu said Alibaba would increase spending further without specifying any amounts.

“The speed of AI industry development has far exceeded our expectations, and the industry’s demand for AI infrastructure has also far exceeded our expectation,” said Wu.

In addition to that Alibaba also unveiled its largest ever artificial intelligence model named as “Qwen3-Max”.

The newly introduced model contains more than 1 trillion parameters or variables that determines how an AI system processes information.

Moreover, Chief Technology officer Alibaba Cloud, Zhou Jingren informs that Qwen3-Max shows particular strength in code generation and autonomous agent capabilities.