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NVIDIA is on a roll. Days after committing to a $5 billion stake in Intel and a massive $100 billion investment in OpenAI, it has partnered with Chinese tech giant Alibaba.

Alibaba announced Wednesday that it is integrating NVIDIA's AI development tools for robotics, self-driving cars, and connected spaces into its AI cloud platform.

Alibaba will offer NVIDIA's physical AI software suite, which can create 3D replicas of real-world environments to generate synthetic data for training AI models for robots, self-driving vehicles, or smart spaces like factories and warehouses.

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Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it represents a significant collaboration, bringing together the world's largest developer of chips optimized for training AI models with a major developer of cloud services and AI models.

This deal comes as Alibaba focuses on strengthening its AI business alongside its core e-commerce operations.

The company announced on Wednesday that it is intensifying its spending on AI technologies beyond its previous budget of $50 billion and outlined plans to launch its first data centers in Brazil, France, and the Netherlands.

It is also building more data centers in more countries, expanding its presence to 91 locations in 29 regions worldwide.

On Wednesday, Alibaba also unveiled the latest version of its Qwen family of large language models, Qwen 3-Max.

The company claims this model is "the largest and most efficient yet," having been trained on a trillion parameters and is well-suited for coding and proxy applications.

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