Young Malaysians who finish the government's AI untuk Rakyat learning modules will soon be able to use two of Alibaba's AI tools free for three months, one for making videos and one for automating everyday work.
Alibaba has joined AI untuk Rakyat as one of the first technology providers, putting its MuleRun and WonderClip tools into the programme's starting suite. The programme itself opened for registration this week, and until now the government had not named which AI tools participants would unlock. AI untuk Rakyat runs under the Ministry of Digital, is carried out by MyDIGITAL Corporation, and is delivered through the Rakyat Digital platform. It is built to reach 100,000 Malaysians aged 18 to 30, who can redeem three months of free access to selected AI applications after completing and passing the modules.
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What the two tools actually do
WonderClip is Alibaba Cloud's video creation platform. It runs the company's own video and image models, including HappyHorse, Wan and Qwen, and covers the whole job from script and storyboard through to video synthesis and post-production. In plain terms, it is built to take someone from an idea to a finished clip without a full editing suite. If you want a sense of what that class of tool looks like in practice, we looked at how Alibaba's Wan model turns a spreadsheet into a video ad.
MuleRun is the other half. It is a workflow automation tool where you describe what you want in plain language and it builds and runs the steps for you, from research and data work to drafting content, without writing code. Alibaba pitches it at people who are not developers, which is most of the 18 to 30 group the programme is aimed at.
Why it matters for young Malaysians
For someone who wants to make short videos or cut down on repetitive work, the barrier has usually been cost and the learning curve. Free access tied to finishing a course lowers both, and it puts the same kind of tools that agencies pay for in the hands of students and first jobbers. It also sits inside a bigger national push: Malaysia has set out to become an AI nation by 2030, and our own reporting found Malaysia already leading much of Asia on AI adoption.
"We believe AI has the potential to be a great equaliser, enabling young people from diverse backgrounds to create, innovate and participate more meaningfully in the digital economy," said Choong Hon Keat, General Manager of Malaysia at Alibaba Cloud Intelligence.
Part of a longer build in Malaysia
Alibaba has been present here for more than a decade, since it opened its first local data centre, and has kept adding infrastructure, talent programmes and partnerships in the country. Supplying tools to a government skills programme is a smaller, more visible version of that same investment, aimed at the people who will use these services next.
How to get it
The tools reach participants through AI untuk Rakyat rather than as a separate purchase, so there is no price to pay for the three month window. Details on the programme and how to join sit on the Rakyat Digital platform (rakyatdigital.gov.my).
The real test comes after the free window. Plenty of people will claim three months of a tool and never open it twice. But as a low risk way for a lot of young Malaysians to try AI on something they actually want to make, it is a sensible place for the programme to start.
