Alibaba Cloud Opens Fifth Tokyo Data Center, Launches Model Studio AI Platform in Japan
The expansion adds cloud and AI infrastructure capacity in Japan, giving local enterprises and developers domestic access to Alibaba's latest multimodal agent model and a one-stop AI development platform.
Reporting from 1 sources: GameBusiness.jp.
Alibaba Cloud opened its fifth data center in Tokyo on June 18, 2026, and launched its AI development platform Model Studio in the Japan region. The new facility serves growing demand from retail, gaming, entertainment, and manufacturing sectors. Model Studio supports text chat, image and video generation, and speech functions. Japanese users can access Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Plus model and third-party LLMs through a domestic API environment.
Alibaba Cloud announced the opening of its fifth data center in Tokyo on June 18, 2026, just months after the fourth center launched in March. The new facility targets rising demand from Japanese customers in retail, gaming, entertainment, and manufacturing. The Japan region now has five data centers, and Alibaba Cloud's global network spans 32 regions and 105 availability zones.
Alongside the data center, Alibaba Cloud made its AI development platform Model Studio available in Japan. Model Studio is a one-stop platform for text chat, image and video generation and editing, and speech synthesis and recognition. Japanese developers and enterprises can now access Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Plus model-described as the company's most powerful multimodal agent model to date-and various third-party large language models through a domestic API environment. Additional models, including the video generation model HappyHorse and the multimodal model Qwen3.5-Omni, are expected to arrive soon.
Alibaba Cloud also launched several AI-native data analysis and database services in Japan, including DataWorks Data Agent, Data Agent for Analytics, Meta for data asset management, DAS for database operations, and DataBridge for data ingestion. The company plans to hold workshops and hackathons for Japanese developers and startups in the coming months.
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- GameBusiness.jp アリババクラウド、東京に5カ所目のデータセンターを開設——AI開発基盤「Model Studio」も日本で提供開始