Investing.com -- A strategic collaboration has been announced by Christian Klein, CEO of SAP SE (ETR: SAPG ), with Alibaba (NYSE: BABA ). The announcement, made during Klein’s keynote at the Sapphire event in Madrid, revealed plans for SAP to integrate Alibaba’s large language model, Qwen, into the SAP generative AI hub located within the SAP AI Core in China.

The partnership is part of the recent SAP Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Certification Program. With this certification, Alibaba can now fully support customers who are using SAP’s enterprise cloud solutions. In addition, Alibaba Group will utilize SAP Cloud ERP Private for its enterprise infrastructure.

This partnership signifies a notable move towards enhanced AI capabilities for SAP, leveraging Alibaba’s advanced language model, Qwen. It also provides Alibaba with the ability to better serve customers using SAP’s cloud solutions, as well as bolstering its own enterprise infrastructure through the use of SAP Cloud ERP Private.

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