Alibaba Cloud's “The AI Business Application Readiness and Accessibility Survey” provides a comprehensive look at how Asian companies are deploying AI. Spanning eight key markets—Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Thailand—the study surveyed 1,000 IT decision-makers to uncover the region’s corporate ambitions for, and barriers to, successful AI integration.
The key findings from our research highlight several defining trends:
Almost all Asian companies surveyed are optimistic about adopting AI. An overwhelming majority of them expects to increase their use of AI applications over the next 12 months.
More significantly, about half of the respondents have been experimenting with various AI product solutions with some success, indicating near-term growth potential for AI-related applications.
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) includes on-demand infrastructure resources, such as servers, storage, and networks. Alibaba Cloud products, including the Elastic Compute Service, are essential for running AI applications and providing the computing power needed to train AI models.
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) platforms, such as Alibaba Cloud’s database management systems (which allow users to effectively manage and query multimodal data) and Platform for AI, provide engineers with a scalable environment for building and training AI models.
Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) make AI more accessible by offering prebuilt models, automated training tools, and scalable deployment. The Alibaba Cloud ModelScope MaaS platform is a space where developers and researchers can develop AI applications and test models.
Companies have a broad range of priority areas for AI application. It is clear that they have been thinking carefully about the technology’s potential and exploring multiple use cases.
While there is no clear consensus on selecting a commercial solution over an open-source model, fully integrated AI + Cloud is the most popular mode of delivery among Asian companies.
At the heart of Alibaba Cloud’s latest efforts is the AI + Cloud solution, a suite of integrated cloud infrastructure and AI tools and services designed to help developers and organizations build intelligent applications, automate operations, and analyze massive datasets. Our AI products are leaders in both cloud computing and AI, offering a comprehensive, multi-tiered architecture—IaaS, PaaS, and MaaS. All are designed to reduce the workload at user companies by freeing up human resources to focus on value-generating activities.
Readiness to embrace AI adoption and the appetite for investment in AI technologies are high across all industries. However, there is a pressing need for improved delivery of holistic AI solutions that address sector-specific scenarios, to ensure that AI adoption is not only widespread but also deeply embedded and effective across business processes.
As the AI landscape moves toward the agentic era, billions of AI agents powered by tokens are expected to assume an expanding share of digital tasks and gradually become the primary interface between humans and the digital world.
To keep pace with this evolution, Alibaba has established the Alibaba Token Hub (ATH) business group. The new group offers comprehensive services for both enterprise and individual users, spanning infrastructure, MaaS, and application layers. The group’s mission is to create tokens, deliver tokens, and apply tokens, unlocking new sources of value and possibility for users.
The pace of change remains frenetic. It is vital that the AI industry is not complacent about the challenges ahead. There remains a tremendous opportunity. While most firms are exploring AI, the market is still in the early stages of understanding the technology’s full potential.
This article was originally published on Alizila written by Claire Mo.
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