Alibaba Cloud just opened its fifth data center in Tokyo, barely three months after launching its fourth in the same city.
The new facility, which went live on June 18, is designed to deliver enterprise-grade services spanning elastic computing, storage, networking, security, and databases. Alongside the data center, Alibaba Cloud also rolled out its Model Studio AI development platform to the Japanese market, giving businesses access to its Qwen family of AI models and a suite of multimodal tools.
What Alibaba is actually building in Japan
The Model Studio platform provides access to Qwen3.7-Plus, an AI model built for developing AI agents. There’s also HappyHorse, a tool designed for video generation, and the upcoming Qwen3.5-Omni model, which promises enhanced multimodal capabilities. The company is also introducing new AI-native database and analytics services.
Alibaba Cloud is targeting several specific industries with this expansion: retail, gaming, entertainment, and manufacturing.
