Alibaba to take on Kuala Lumpur's traffic in first foreign project

Kuala Lumpur

ALIBABA Group will set up a traffic control system harnessing artificial intelligence for Malaysia's capital Kua-la Lumpur, its first such service outside China, as the e-commerce giant pushes to grow its cloud computing business.

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, said on Monday that it plans to make live traffic predictions and recommendations to increase traffic efficiency in Kuala Lumpur by crunching data gathered from video footage, traffic bureaus, public transportation systems and mapping apps.