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# Faster Alibaba Cloud Model Studio Routing for Image Requests

> APIYI has optimized its cross-border network path to Alibaba Cloud Model Studio. Qwen, DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi and other models served through Alibaba Cloud respond faster and more steadily, and multimodal requests with images, especially base64 uploads, see a noticeably shorter wait for the first token. No code changes needed.

**2026/9/24 23:12 (UTC+8)** · Service Notice · Alibaba

✅ **Alibaba Cloud Model Studio routing optimized: image requests are noticeably faster**

We have optimized our cross-border network path to Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, so models served through Alibaba Cloud now respond faster and more steadily. Multimodal requests with images benefit the most, especially image understanding calls that send images as base64, where the wait for the first token is noticeably shorter.

Covered models:

* `qwen3.8-max`, `qwen3.8-flash` and other Qwen text and multimodal models
* DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi and other models served through Alibaba Cloud
* Wan and HappyHorse video models, and Qwen Omni Realtime models

No code or configuration changes are needed. If you still see noticeably slow responses, contact support with the request time and we will look into each one.

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