Alibaba Cloud Brings AI+Cloud Strategy to European Businesses

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, today announced a suite of enhanced AI solutions at its European Summit in Paris, reinforcing its dedication to supporting the region’s businesses growth by capturing the emerging AI opportunities.

The expanded offerings, from AI-optimised tools to intelligent industrial solutions, demonstrate Alibaba Cloud’s long-term commitment to delivering cutting-edge cloud technologies that help European customers across diverse industries—including luxury fashion, automotive, and healthcare—to innovate and scale globally.

“For years, Alibaba Cloud has been a trusted partner to leading European enterprises across industries, including automotive, luxury fashion, retail, and healthcare,” said Selina Yuan, President of International Business, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence. “Today’s service enhancements reflect our continued commitment to the European market, facilitating businesses in the region with AI-powered tools and solutions to stay competitive in the evolving AI era.”

Enhanced AI Platform and Security Solution for High-Performance Workloads

Alibaba Cloud has announced the upgrade of PAI (Platform for AI), its advanced AI computing and development platform in the Frankfurt Region. This upgrade enables customers in Europe to harness Alibaba Cloud’s large-scale deep learning and intelligent computing capabilities with enhanced efficiency and scalability that can cater to customers’ increasing computing demand for critical AI workloads.

Powered by PAI AI Scheduler, Alibaba Cloud’s proprietary cloud-native scheduling engine, the upgraded platform optimises the intelligent integration of diverse computing resources. It offers flexible resource scheduling, real-time task adjustments, and automatic fault recovery, achieving an impressive effective compute utilisation rate exceeding 96%.

To meet growing demand on safety, reliability, and security for AI tasks, Alibaba Cloud launched AI Guardrails, a comprehensive solution designed to ensure compliance and security across diverse AI deployments—from pre-trained models to AI agents—delivering essential end-to-end protection for any AI workflow.

Alibaba Cloud’s AI Guardrails, available through its Singapore region, provides robust, multi-layered security for AI systems for global customers, allowing users to effortlessly verify text, images, files, audio, and video content with a single request. Threat defense is also implemented through real-time prevention of external attacks, including malicious prompts, harmful file uploads, and suspicious URLs.

Luxury Industry and Logistics Solutions Tailored for European Customers

Harnessing key trends in the luxury industry surrounding consumer mindset, channel evolvement and curation: Alibaba Cloud and Accenture have jointly launched an AI-powered industry solution to help luxury fashion brands deliver seamless omnichannel and hyper-personalised experiences.

Through combining the power of Alibaba Cloud’s cutting-edge AI technology and infrastructure with Accenture’s global strategy, consulting, technology and deep industry capabilities – the solution enables luxury brands to transform in five core areas: customer engagement, channel experience, operational excellence, sustainability, and data analytics. The full-stack “technology + service” solution, leverages best-of-breed innovation in Cloud and AI to accelerate new pathways to profitable growth.

Alibaba Cloud has partnered with Cainiao, Alibaba Group’s logistics arm, to introduce an intelligent supply chain solution designed for European businesses, with a focus on the sports and industrial manufacturing sectors. This collaboration leverages Alibaba Cloud’s scalable infrastructure and Qwen foundation models alongside Cainiao’s smart logistics capabilities to deliver comprehensive supply chain optimisation. The solution encompasses warehouse automation, AI-enhanced inventory management, and intelligent scheduling across logistics robotics systems. For instance, one European logistics company implemented this solution to streamline its operations, achieving a 25% improvement in operational efficiency and a 22% reduction in operating costs—demonstrating the tangible benefits of this innovation.

Supporting European Businesses in Global Expansion and Digital Talent Development

Alibaba Cloud continues to serve as a strategic partner for European companies looking to grow internationally including in Asia. Swedish video commerce leader Bambuser is leveraging Alibaba Cloud’s ApsaraVideo Live to bring its interactive shopping solutions to the Chinese market, enabling brands to adopt live commerce, digital clienteling, and shoppable videos and chats to meet the unique demands of the Chinese e-commerce market.

Alibaba Cloud has also partnered with Brest Business School (BBS), a leading French institution in business education, to drive AI talent development, with a focus on advancing AI innovation, digital transformation, and cross-border collaboration. Together, both parties will co-develop academic programs and training in AI, cloud computing, and digital innovation, while also collaborating on digital transformation projects—including consulting, planning, and implementation services for enterprises. Additionally, the partnership will organise study tours to promote knowledge exchange and foster innovation. This collaboration reflects a shared vision to equip students, professionals, and organisations with future-ready digital skills, while strengthening academic-industry ties between Europe and Asia.

Alibaba Cloud has been a trusted cloud service provider for European businesses for years. In June, Alibaba Cloud announced a collaboration with SAP to offer SAP’s enterprise resource planning solutions to customers in China and then gradually to Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. In March, BMW and Alibaba announced an expanded strategic partnership in China, accelerating the integration of Alibaba’s Qwen models into BMW’s next-generation intelligent vehicles, marking a significant step forward in AI-driven mobility. In May last year, LVMH expanded its global partnership with Alibaba to drive luxury experience for another five years, leveraging Alibaba’s cloud technologies, through AI-powered innovations in retail and on-line with