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IDC Ranks Alibaba Cloud First in China’s LLM MaaS Market for H1 2026

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Alibaba Cloud led China’s large language model model-as-a-service (MaaS) market with a 46.6% share in the first half of 2026, according to IDC’s latest China AI software market tracker. IDC ranked Zhipu second with 10.6% and Volcano Engine third with 10.2%.

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  1. Alibaba Cloud leads China’s LLM MaaS market with 46.6% share

    Alibaba Cloud held 46.6% of China’s LLM MaaS market in the first half of 2026, according to IDC’s latest China AI software market tracker, released October 29. Zhipu ranked second with 10.6%, followed by Volcano Engine with 10.2%.

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