MiniMax is a global AI foundation model company that experienced rapid growth in 2024, pushing user data volumes to tens of petabytes and exposing bottlenecks from fragmented cloud stacks, low development efficiency, high operational overhead, and poor cost/utilization for large-scale data processing.,Alibaba Cloud helped MiniMax build a globally unified cloud-native data warehouse centered on DataWorks, MaxCompute, Hologres, Realtime Compute for Apache Flink, OSS, and MaxFrame to support real-time/offline data collaboration and a managed Data+AI preprocessing platform.
MicrosoftJun 2026
Agora, a global leader in real-time audio and video communication technology, used Microsoft Azure AI and cloud services to support international expansion and real-time multilingual communication.,The company combined Azure OpenAI in Foundry Tools, Azure Speech in Foundry Tools, and GitHub Copilot to improve low-latency translation, customer interaction experiences, and product iteration.
MicrosoftJun 2026
SoftBank Corp. developed “satto workspace,” a platform built on Microsoft Azure OpenAI that helps workers create presentations and documents without technical training.,The system automates research, formatting, and content creation and is designed to match Japanese presentation preferences.
AWSJun 2026
Ströer Content Group built an AI assistant for t-online.de that provides readers fast, secure access to advice content from more than 45,000 articles.,The solution was developed with Slalom on Amazon Bedrock and integrates natural language, personalization, security, and feedback mechanisms.,The assistant improves engagement and time on site while helping manage per-query costs and protecting editorial tone and trust.
Hypergryph modernized its data platform on Alibaba Cloud to support high-frequency live-service game analytics and global game operations.,The company adopted a serverless lakehouse architecture with EMR Serverless Spark as the core offline compute engine, plus real-time and ad-hoc analytics components.
MicrosoftJun 2026
mobilezone built two Microsoft Copilot Studio agents: a customer-facing concierge agent embedded on the website and an internal IT service desk agent for employees.,The solution integrates with Dynamics 365 Customer Service, Dynamics 365 Finance, Dataverse, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft 365, with an MCP server used to retrieve curated knowledge and real-time product/offer data.,The agents provide multilingual support, conversational ticket creation, escalation with full context, and guided product discovery.,The customer-facing agent handles about 1,250 chats per month and the internal agent about 350 chats per month.
Yahoo! centralized fragmented analytics pipelines into BigQuery and standardized enterprise metrics in Looker with LookML to reduce dashboard sprawl across its distributed GM business units.,The company added Looker Conversational Agents powered by Gemini so non-technical users could ask cross-functional questions in natural language while staying within governed Looker security and access controls.,Yahoo! also embedded deep links into operational dashboards and is planning a Model Context Protocol-based Looker integration to support future agentic analytics workflows.
Tech & CommsUnited States AWSJun 2026
Sony Group built a generative AI platform on AWS to scale AI access across global business units.,The platform uses Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, with Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio and Amazon Nova Forge also referenced in the source.,Sony says the multi-platform solution democratizes AI for internal users while maintaining zero downtime at large scale.
Banglalink launched REN, a Gemini-powered chatbot, for its Ryze digital brand to provide fully digital, localized customer service and personalized offers to youth users.,REN supports customer interactions in English, Bengali, and Banglish, and handles balance inquiries, package purchases, bill payments, and SIM services.,The solution is hosted on Google Cloud infrastructure and powered by Gemini, with Riafy Technologies providing a proprietary agentic AI platform built and fine-tuned from Gemini models and custom logic.