{"id":6031,"date":"2026-08-20T11:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/08\/20\/alibaba-cloud-soars-45-amidst-ai-investment-surge-profit-takes-a-hit\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T11:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:29:08","slug":"alibaba-cloud-soars-45-amidst-ai-investment-surge-profit-takes-a-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/08\/20\/alibaba-cloud-soars-45-amidst-ai-investment-surge-profit-takes-a-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba Cloud Soars 45% Amidst AI Investment Surge, Profit Takes a Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alibaba reported a 75% drop in quarterly profits due to significant AI spending, despite overall revenue growth of 9%. The company&#8217;s cloud division, however, saw a robust 45% revenue increase, driven by AI-related product demand.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Eddie Wu expressed confidence in Alibaba&#8217;s AI strategy to capture future growth, as the company also unveils powerful new AI models like Qwen3.8-Max, competing directly with industry leaders.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/08\/10\/alibaba-cloud-revenue-rises-45percent-even-as-ai-spending-weighs-on-profit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE FROM CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alibaba reported a 75% drop in quarterly profits due to significant AI spending, despite overall revenue growth of 9%. The company&#8217;s cloud division, however, saw a robust 45% revenue increase, driven by AI-related product demand. CEO Eddie Wu expressed confidence in Alibaba&#8217;s AI strategy to capture future growth, as the company also unveils powerful new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.cnbcfm.com\/i\/l\/images\/cnbc-logo-opengraph-1024x512.1587314030.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","rifnote_country-china","rifnote_executive-eddie-wu"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.cnbcfm.com\/i\/l\/images\/cnbc-logo-opengraph-1024x512.1587314030.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}