Alibaba Cloud has launched a new international AI product portal, Qwen Cloud, alongside the Agent product MuleRun, in Singapore for overseas markets. The release also includes updates to the intelligent agent programming platform Qoder and the universal desktop agent QoderWork, accompanied by a comprehensive upgrade of cloud infrastructure tailored for Agents.

The Chief Technology Officer and President of International Business at Alibaba Cloud stated that overseas demand for AI remains robust, with the surge in Agent adoption driving exponential growth in model invocations and cloud resource consumption. Alibaba Cloud is undertaking a full-stack upgrade for international markets, encompassing models, access points, Agent products, and cloud infrastructure, enabling global developers to seamlessly integrate Alibaba Cloud's AI capabilities.

Qwen Cloud represents a new AI product portal for overseas users, following its domestic counterpart. It is not merely an AI sub-module within a traditional cloud console but a fresh cloud product entry point designed for the Agent era. Alibaba Cloud has encapsulated core functionalities such as model services and inference calls into standardized Skills and CLI tools. This allows intelligent agents to directly interpret instructions, autonomously learn all platform capabilities, and invoke them as needed.

The underlying rationale for this design is that the primary consumers of cloud services are shifting from humans to Agents. As Agents become the foremost users of cloud services, interfaces and interaction logic originally designed for humans require redesign. Accordingly, Qwen Cloud adopts a three-entry design: a website for developers to browse, trial, compare models, and access OpenAI-compatible APIs; Skills that package platform capabilities into standardized, Agent-readable instructions; and CLI providing a stable, repeatable command-line operation layer for both developers and intelligent agents.