Alibaba said the total investment amount exceeds the company's spending in AI and cloud computing over the past decade.

KEY TAKEAWAYS U.S.-listed shares of Alibaba Group are falling 3% in premarket trading Monday after the Chinese tech giant announced plans to invest more than $52 billion in artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure over the next three years.

Alibaba Cloud invests $53 billion in artificial intelligence to drive AI infrastructure, cloud computing and LLMs as Alibaba Group ADR stock increases.

Shares of Alibaba ( BABA -9.10%) were taking a dive today after investors balked at the company's big spending plans in cloud and artificial intelligence (AI). As a result, the stock was down 9.7% as of 11:24 a.m. ET.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. pledged to invest more than 380 billion yuan ($53 billion) on AI infrastructure such as data centers over the next three years, a major commitment that underscores the e-commerce pioneer’s ambitions of becoming a leader in artificial intelligence.

The Chinese technology giant first mentioned the plan last week when it reported results but didn’t provide a specific figure.

Chinese tech giant Alibaba announced on Monday that it will invest $50 billion into artificial intelligence and cloud technology over the next three years.

Chinese tech company Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) on Monday unveiled plans to invest at least 380 billion yuan ($52.44 billion) in its cloud computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure over the next three years.