{"id":213486,"date":"2026-05-13T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/alibaba-reports-38-jump-in-ai-and-cloud-revenue\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T19:00:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:00:37","slug":"alibaba-reports-38-jump-in-ai-and-cloud-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/alibaba-reports-38-jump-in-ai-and-cloud-revenue\/","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba reports 38% jump in AI and cloud revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/china-alibaba-earnings-artificial-intelligence-e83a76c7188e27f69c9c3d7e4f8d9d83\">Alibaba reports 38% jump in AI and cloud revenue<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/china-alibaba-earnings-artificial-intelligence-e83a76c7188e27f69c9c3d7e4f8d9d83\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/china-alibaba-earnings-artificial-intelligence-e83a76c7188e27f69c9c3d7e4f8d9d83<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-13 13:27:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"apnews.com\">apnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alibaba sees accelerated growth in both its artificial intelligence and cloud businesses, with the AI portion growing 38% in the January-March quarter despite overall revenue rising just 3% to 243 billion yuan ($36 billion).<\/li>\n<li>Its Cloud Intelligence Group revenue surged significantly, outperforming growth rates from the previous two quarters, reflecting the increasing demand and investment in AI infrastructure.<\/li>\n<li>Operating losses were significant at 848 million yuan ($125 million) due to higher technological investments aimed at bolstering AI infrastructure.<\/li>\n<li>Alibaba\u2019s CEO, Eddie Wu, emphasized the company\u2019s shift towards commercializing AI at scale, integrating AI into its e-commerce platform Taobao, and raising prices for some services.<\/li>\n<li>The company plans to connect its AI agent tool Wukong to commercial customers and has set a target goal of surpassing $100 billion in annual AI and cloud revenue within the next five years.<\/li>\n<li>Alibaba\u2019s results come as broader challenges for tech firms in managing AI investment costs while sustaining growth, with rivals like Tencent also navigating AI profitability expectations.<\/li>\n<li>The trend of increased capital expenditure in AI continues, as companies transition from user acquisition to monetization strategies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alibaba reports 38% jump in AI and cloud revenue https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/china-alibaba-earnings-artificial-intelligence-e83a76c7188e27f69c9c3d7e4f8d9d83 Publish Date: 2026-05-13 13:27:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/1a72450\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5847x3896+0+1\/resize\/980x653!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fc2%2Fa8%2F9c51c836c77da5cb0b5326d0a88d%2F08144e5b9e4947e19c3d8d561e38b6d2","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-213486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213488,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213486\/revisions\/213488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}