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Jack Ma is back! Alibaba Breaks Record for Private Enterprises in China Announces Largest Ever Investment in Cloud and AI Infrastructure

Fast Technology reported on February 24 that today, Alibaba officially announced that in the next three years, it will invest more than 380 billion yuan in the construction of cloud and AI hardware infrastructure, with a total amount exceeding the sum of the last ten years.

This is also the largest investment ever made by a Chinese private enterprise in the field of cloud and AI hardware infrastructure.

Wu Yongming, CEO of Alibaba Group, said: “The outbreak of AI has far exceeded expectations, and the domestic technology industry is in the ascendant with huge potential. Alibaba will spare no effort to accelerate the construction of cloud and AI hardware infrastructure and boost the development of the industry-wide ecosystem. ”

It is understood that this is the first time that Alibaba has disclosed the specific amount of AI infrastructure in the next three years.

It is worth mentioning that at last week’s earnings conference, Wu Yongming said that the investment in cloud and AI infrastructure in the next three years will exceed the sum of the past ten years.

He said that Alibaba will continue to focus on three major business types: domestic and foreign e-commerce business, AI + cloud computing technology business, and Internet platform products.

In the next three years, Alibaba will focus on AI as the core of its strategy, and increase investment in AI infrastructure, basic model platforms and AI native applications, and AI transformation of existing businesses.

On February 13, Alibaba co-founder and chairman Joe Tsai confirmed that Apple and Alibaba are working together to develop AI features for China’s iPhones, and the two sides have collaborated to develop a built-in system that can analyze and modify Apple’s AI models for Chinese iPhone, iPad and Mac users, predicted to be available as early as May.

At the same time, Alibaba’s AI To C business has recently started large-scale personnel recruitment.

It is reported that the number of positions recruited this time is as high as hundreds, of which AI technology and product research and development positions account for 90%, mainly distributed in the direction of AI products and AI technology research and development, and will focus on text, multimodal large models, AI Agent and other cutting-edge technologies and applications.

In the AI To C track, Alibaba’s development trend of continuously increasing resource investment and accelerating business layout has become more and more prominent.

Back in early February, Xu Zhuhong, the world’s top artificial intelligence scientist and former vice president of Salesforce Group, became the vice president of Alibaba Group, responsible for the multi-modal basic model of the AI To C business and the basic research and application solutions related to Agents.

According to insiders, Xu Zhuhong is currently preparing a top-level AI large model research team with a scale of more than 100 people to accelerate the efficient transformation of cutting-edge scientific research results into practical application solutions.

Recently, Alibaba’s AI To C business has made frequent moves. According to media reports, Wu Jia, an executive of Alibaba’s “Young Zhuang School”, focuses on exploring Alibaba’s business in AI To C-end applications.

Subsequently, Alibaba’s AI application “Tongyi” was merged into Ali’s intelligent information business group, and the Tmall Genie team and Quark product team worked together to explore new hardware directions such as AI glasses. As a representative product of Ali’s AI To C, Quark recently upgraded its brand Slogan – “AI all-round assistant for 200 million people”.

Previously, Alibaba founder Jack Ma appeared in Quark’s office area, which attracted wide attention from the industry, further highlighting Quark’s important position in Ali’s AI strategic layout.

According to industry analysts, with the addition of a large number of outstanding AI talents, Alibaba will further enhance its strength in AI To C technology research and development and application innovation, and accelerate product iteration and service upgrades.

This will not only help Alibaba maintain its leading position in the fierce market competition, but also help the entire AI application industry move towards a new stage of development.

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