web search - Alibaba Cloud Model Studio

Availability

Applies to tools that extend web search through Model Context Protocol (MCP), such as Qwen Code and Claude Code. Some tools, such as Cursor, have built-in web search and don't require a separate service.

Prerequisites

You have subscribed to Token Plan. See Getting started.
You have set up a Token Plan supported tool (such as Claude Code or Qwen Code) and can chat normally. See Clients and Developer Tools.
Sign up for Firecrawl and get an API key. Firecrawl offers a free quota.

Integrate with tools

Add the MCP service to your AI programming tool (using Claude Code as an example).

In the terminal, run the following command to add the web search MCP Server.
Before you run the command, replace YOUR_API_KEY with your Firecrawl API key.

claude mcp add firecrawl -e FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY -- npx -y firecrawl-mcp

The terminal returns Added stdio MCP server firecrawl with command: npx -y firecrawl-mcp to local config. 2. Start Claude Code.

claude

In the dialog box, run /mcp and confirm that firecrawl status is connected. Wait for the status to change from connecting to connected.

Manage MCP servers
2 servers

Local MCPs (xxx)
xxx
> firecrawl · ✓ connected

Press Esc to exit the MCP list, then send the prompt Use the firecrawl MCP to search for news about Alibaba Cloud to see the search results.
Mention the firecrawl MCP explicitly in your prompt to avoid confusion with other tools.

firecrawl - firecrawl_search (MCP)(query: "Alibaba Cloud news 2026", limit: 10, sources: [{"type":"web"},{"type":"news"}])
└ {
    "web": [
        {
    … +143 lines (ctrl+o to expand)

Successfully retrieved the latest Alibaba Cloud news. Here are the highlights:

2026 Strategy and AI Market

Alibaba Cloud 2026 goal: capture 80% of China's incremental AI cloud market
- Liu Weiguang, Senior Vice President of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group and President of the Public Cloud Division, stated that Alibaba Cloud aims to capture 80% of China's incremental AI cloud market in 2026
- Liu predicts that AI applications will experience another surge in early 2026, and AI budgets for enterprises in the coming years will be 10x current IT market budgets
- He made 186 customer visits in 2025, covering 146 enterprise customers

Technology and Product Updates

Chip Development
- Alibaba's proprietary AI chip "Zhenwu 810E" officially released (January 29), a high-end PPU (Prompt Processing Unit) chip with performance comparable to NVIDIA H20

Academic Achievements (Latest)
- Alibaba Cloud's three SI domain papers accepted at DesignCon 2026 and IEEE EPEPS 2025 (February 24–25)
- Focused on Scale UP high-speed interconnect hardware implementation

AI Products
- Tongyi CoPaw launched (mid-February), an AI agent tool targeting OpenClaw, supporting DingTalk/Lark/QQ integration, deployable on-device or cloud

Market Performance

Large Model Call Data (February 24 Report)
- In H2 2025, daily enterprise-grade large model calls in China surged to 37.0 trillion tokens, up 263% from H1
- Alibaba Cloud Qwen ranked first among leading large models

Sources:
- https://m.jiemian.com/article/13855862.html
- https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_32382031
- https://m.caixin.com/m/2025-12-31/102399349.html
- https://www.nbd.com.cn/articles/2026-02-24/4266739.html
- http://www.iccsz.com/site/cn/News/2026/02/24/20260224104938322827.htm

Learn more

For more information about how to integrate other AI tools with the Firecrawl MCP, see the official Firecrawl documentation.

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Integrate with tools

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