Nvidia Details New Partnership With Alibaba's Alicloud

According to Alizila, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd BABA's official blog, the company's cloud-computing unit, AliCloud, has entered into a new partnership with NVIDIA Corporation NVDA to create China's first ever Internet-based high-performance graphics processing service.

Alizila noted that AliCloud serves Alibaba's e-commerce websites and external clients across China. The blog added that the newly announced partnership will offer 20 solutions covering all aspects of data development, including computation, information processing and analysis and machine learning.

"The Big Data Platform fulfills our vision of sharing our vast data troves that will create immense value to our users," AliCloud President Simon Hu said in a statement. "The platform is a testament to our ongoing commitment of building an ecosystem that leverages our cloud computing expertise to efficiently and securely serve the needs of our global clients."

"Innovative companies in deep learning are one of our most important user communities," said Zhang Wensong, chief scientist of AliCloud, in a statement. "Together with NVIDIA, AliCloud will use its strength in public cloud computing and experiences accumulated in HPC to offer emerging companies in deep learning with greater support in the future."