Alibaba Cloud announced a shift from AI-native to agent-native cloud at Apsara Conference 2026. It now frames enterprise AI competition around operationalizing intelligent agents. The company introduced Agent Sandbox, AgentCore, Agent Identity, Agent Memory, Agent Security Center, and AgentLoop. It also emphasized agent runtimes, sandbox environments, identity management, and governance controls. Alibaba described agents as digital employees with memory, context, and organizational awareness. It elevated context engineering to a first-class infrastructure layer. The company launched Yitian 730 and Zhenwu V900 processors for agent-era AI infrastructure. Qwen is expanding into a multimodal AI portfolio. Alibaba is modernizing its data layer for context-driven AI. It is integrating trust, governance, and sovereignty across its AI stack.