Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has been recently named a market provider in Omdia’s latest report, Market Radar: Generative AI Cloud Titans in Asia and Oceania 2025.
The report positions Alibaba Cloud in the Provider quadrant, highlighting its generative artificial intelligence, Generative AI capabilities and comprehensive product portfolio across the Asia and Oceania region.
Alibaba Cloud is named one of four leaders among nine global vendors evaluated in Omdia’s report, receiving the highest Advanced rating in seven out of nine categories. Among the four companies designated as Provider, Alibaba Cloud received the most Advanced ratings. The report evaluated nine key dimensions, including Generative AI models, model optimisation, Generative AI infrastructure, development platforms, deployment, security, and developer community engagement.
“Alibaba Cloud offers end-to-end technology capabilities, including foundation models, Generative AI platform, infrastructure, and applications. This positions it as a significant competitor in the global Generative AI landscape,” said Omdia in the report.
The Omdia report highlighted Alibaba Cloud’s strong position in the Generative AI market, pointing to its full-stack Generative AI solutions, comprehensive and developer-friendly AI platform offering and open-source initiatives.
Through its Model Studio and Platform for AI, PAI, Alibaba Cloud offers enterprises a user-friendly environment for building and deploying Generative AI applications, supported by cutting-edge infrastructure including the PAI-Lingjun Intelligent Computing Service, according to the report.
“Generative AI has captured the imagination of businesses in Asia and around the world, and we are grateful to be recognised for our leadership in helping companies implement its capabilities. Our commitment to open source is central to this, driving innovation through one of the largest AI ecosystems in the world. As we accelerate into the AI era, we want to make it as easy as possible for companies to harness the power of this technology and will continue to enhance our model family and solutions to ensure they have the support they need to thrive,” said Jingren Zhou, Chief Technology Officer of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence.
Since August 2023, Alibaba Cloud has actively contributed to the open-source AI community, releasing over 200 advanced AI models. These open-source efforts have resonated widely, as evidenced by the Qwen family surpassing 400 million downloads on platforms like Hugging Face and ModelScope and over 140,000 models built on Qwen by third parties, making it one of the most prominent AI model families worldwide.
As of January 2025, more than 290,000 customers across various sectors, including robotics, healthcare, education, finance, and automotive, have adopted Qwen models via Model Studio, Alibaba’s Generative AI development platform. This momentum underscores Qwen’s role in accelerating AI-powered digital transformation across industries in China.
Omdia’s report also notes that the Generative AI software revenue in Asia and Oceania is estimated to be $5.5 billion in 2025. The market is expected to grow more than four times, reaching $19.8 billion in 2029. Currently, 27% of enterprises in Asia and Oceania are already deploying Generative AI solutions, with an additional 33% piloting Generative AI in at least one business function.
Established in 2009, Alibaba Cloud, is the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group. It offers a complete suite of cloud services to customers worldwide, including elastic computing, database, storage, network virtualisation services, large-scale computing, security, big data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence, AI services.
Alibaba has been named the IaaS provider in Asia Pacific by revenue in US$ since 2018, according to Gartner. It has also maintained its position as one of the world’s public cloud IaaS service providers since 2018, according to IDC.
