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Tencent states that small cloud providers can't secure hardware amid AI demand, enabling giants like itself to hike prices. Baidu has joined with similar price increase signals. This stems from AI's strain on supply chains.
Alibaba and Baidu have officially announced increases in compute power pricing, impacting AI workloads. SK Group predicts DRAM shortages will persist until 2030 with a gap exceeding 20%. Baidu's search head departs, with LLM algorithm lead He Jingzhou taking over app R&D.
Alibaba Cloud and Baidu Intelligent Cloud simultaneously announced price increases. JD Cloud countered by committing to no price hikes. This occurs amid regulatory scrutiny on capital markets.
Global AI demand surge and rising token invocations have led Alibaba Cloud, Baidu Intelligent Cloud, and others to hike product prices. Institutions forecast compute demand to rise further in 3-6 months from AI inference deployments and model iterations.
Alibaba and Baidu are raising prices for certain cloud services by up to 34% due to surging AI demand and infrastructure costs. Alibaba Cloud's services on AI chips like T-Head Zhengwu 810E will increase 5-34% starting April 18. This follows similar moves by US cloud providers.
Alibaba Cloud is raising prices for many services by up to 34%, attributing the hike to increased hardware costs and surging AI demand. Compute, storage, and SaaS offerings are affected, including those powered by Alibaba's own silicon chips.
Alibaba Group is raising prices for AI computing and storage products by up to 34%. The move responds to surging demand and escalating infrastructure costs.
Tencent Cloud officially announced a price adjustment for AI models with hikes exceeding 4 times. CEO Pony Ma declared the Longxia Matrix launch amid the pricing update. Suzhou issued an OpenClaw rational use initiative against hype and anxiety.
London court advances collective lawsuit by 60,000 UK firms against Microsoft over Azure pricing discrimination. Claim totals 21B GBP (194B CNY). Case led by lawyer Maria Luisa Stassi enters trial.
Microsoft cuts Windows 365 and AVD pricing by 20% for lower-tier VMs and adds hibernation, autoscaling to reduce costs. However, Microsoft 365 and Windows prices rise up to 33% for AI features. Positions AI-enabled Cloud PCs as premium DaaS option.