Alibaba and Apple Join Forces: AI-Powered Strategy Targets the Chinese Market, with Localization as the KeyOn February 13th, at the World Governments Summit 2025 in Dubai, Alibaba co-founder and executive chairman Joseph Tsai confirmed rumors of a partnership between Alibaba and Apple. This collaboration will focus on Apple's localization strategy in China, leveraging Alibaba's AI technology to enhance the user experience of Apple's iPhones...

Alibaba Cloud Launches Second Data Center in Thailand, Boosting Digital TransformationOn February 13th, Alibaba Cloud announced the official launch of its second data center in Thailand. This significantly enhances Alibaba Cloud's cloud computing capabilities in the country, providing stronger computing resources and technical support for local Thai businesses, Chinese companies expanding into Thailand, and local developers...

Alibaba Cloud Joins UALink Alliance to Advance Next-Generation GPU Interconnect Technology StandardsOn January 16th, the UALink Alliance, an organization focused on AI server chip interconnect technology, announced its updated board of directors, with Alibaba Cloud officially joining as a new member. This marks Alibaba Cloud's collaboration with industry giants like AMD, AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Apple to jointly develop and standardize next-generation GPU interconnect technologies, furthering the advancement of artificial intelligence infrastructure...

Tianwang Watches Partners with Alibaba's AI Digital Human, Lili, to Usher in a New Era of Metaverse Marketing for Domestic BrandsRecently, watch brand Tianwang Watches officially announced its first digital spokesperson Lili, an AI digital human independently developed by Alibaba Entertainment and released a Lunar New Year promotional video starring Lili. This marks Tianwang Watches' official entry into the metaverse marketing arena and its exploration of new paths for brand rejuvenation and broader appeal through collaboration with a domestically produced digital human...

Alibaba Cloud Becomes Exclusive Cloud Computing and AI Partner for the 2025 Spring Festival GalaOn December 26th, China Media Group (CMG) held a launch event for the 2025 Spring Festival Gala (Chunwan) in Beijing, officially announcing Alibaba Cloud as its exclusive cloud computing and AI partner. This means that during the upcoming 2025 Spring Festival, Alibaba Cloud's robust global cloud infrastructure and advanced AI technologies will power a smooth and stable online viewing experience for Chinese communities worldwide...

Alibaba's Strong Earnings Report and Robust Double 11 Growth Highlight a New Trend of Value-Based Competition in E-commerceAlibaba Group released its second-quarter earnings report for fiscal year 2025 on the evening of November 15, showing that its core businesses maintained healthy growth momentum. During the subsequent analyst call, Wu Yongming, CEO of the Group, announced that Taobao and Tmall witnessed robust GMV growth during the recently concluded Double 11 shopping festival in 2024, and the platform also reached an all-time high in its monthly active users...

State Grid Corporation of China's Comprehensive Smart Energy Company Partners with Alibaba DAMO Academy to Empower Industrial and Commercial Energy Storage Efficiency with Minute-Level Intelligent Charging and Discharging StrategiesState Grid Corporation of China's Comprehensive Smart Energy Company (hereinafter referred to as "State Grid Comprehensive Energy"), leveraging the "Tianshu No. 1" Smart Energy Internet of Things platform and Alibaba DAMO Academy's optimization solver, has developed the country's first optimization solution subsystem for industrial and commercial energy storage...

Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition Sparks Controversy: Teacher Violates Rules, Raises ConcernsAccording to the official website of DAMO Academy, on November 3, the organizing committee of the Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition issued a statement regarding the 2024 competition. The results were announced, with a total of 86 winners, including 5 gold, 10 silver, 20 bronze, and 51 honorable mentions...

Sinopec's Charging Pile Network Surpasses 1 Billion kWh, Powered by Alibaba CloudRecently, China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) announced that its platform's self-operated charging volume has exceeded 1 billion kWh for the year. This milestone marks significant progress for Sinopec in the new energy sector and reflects its commitment to actively responding to the country's call for high-quality development of the new energy industry...

Alibaba Cloud Releases Cloud-Based Enterprise Technical Risk Co-Construction System to Enhance Fault Early Warning and Handling CapabilitiesOctober 24th News: Recently, Alibaba Cloud's public cloud technical service team released a cloud-based enterprise technical risk co-construction system. This system leverages Alibaba Cloud's expert technical services and cloud product capabilities to co-build enterprise-wide risk prevention mechanisms and fault emergency procedures, effectively helping enterprises enhance fault early warning and handling capabilities, minimizing the impact of real faults...

AI-Powered Virus Discovery: Alibaba Cloud and Sun Yat-sen University Collaborate to Discover 180 Novel RNA Virus CladesA research collaboration between Sun Yat-sen University and Alibaba Cloud, published recently in the prestigious journal Cell, has leveraged cloud computing and AI to uncover 180 novel clades and over 160,000 new RNA viruses, a nearly 30-fold increase in known virus species. This discovery significantly advances our understanding of RNA virus diversity and evolutionary history...

AI's Imagination Goes Beyond the Phone Screen: Alibaba Cloud's Wu Yingming on the Future of Generative AIAt the 2024 Yunqi Conference, Wu Yingming, CEO of Alibaba Group and Chairman and CEO of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group, delivered a keynote speech that delved into the future development trends of generative AI. He believes that in the past 22 months, the speed of AI development has surpassed any historical period, but we are still in the early stages of AGI transformation...