Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., teamed up with Remark Media Inc. to offer artificial intelligence technologies to Alibaba Cloud's developer network.

Remark Media will provide its advanced facial recognition and image classification services, leveraging its proprietary KanKan Data Intelligence Platform, to Alibaba Cloud's "AI-based Robotic Vision Ecosystem Union," according to a Dec. 29 news release.

Remark Media will offer its AI platform as a service to companies or individuals requiring help with integrating the technology into their own models.