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...

Five Leading Pharmaceutical Companies Join Hands with Alibaba Health to Build a New Digital Healthcare EcosystemOn September 12th, five well-known pharmaceutical companies, including HuiZh China, Qilu Pharmaceutical, Taiji Group, Dain Pharmaceutical, and Jiangzhong Group, gathered in Hangzhou to sign strategic cooperation agreements with Alibaba Health's online pharmacy. This collaboration will focus on multiple areas, including online retail, category expansion, new drug launches, and disease education, to comprehensively implement digital healthcare service cooperation...

AI Empowers Film Industrialization: Alibaba Entertainment Group's Shenli Nishang Enhances Content Creation"The mutual pursuit between technologists and content creators has resulted in a continuous increase in AI penetration across all stages of film-level content creation." At the second Beijing Internet Audiovisual Art Conference, themed "Technology Empowers Content," Zheng Yong, Chief Technology Officer of Alibaba Entertainment Group, introduced how the deep integration of AI with specialized knowledge in the film industry is accelerating the bridging of the "last mile" in film industrialization...

China Releases First National Standard for Batch-Stream Fusion in Big Data, Alibaba Cloud Leads Industry DevelopmentRecently, the State Administration for Market Regulation and the State Administration for Standardization of China officially released the first national standard for batch-stream fusion in big data, GB/T44216-2024 "Information Technology Big Data Batch-Stream Fusion Computing Technical Requirements". The standard was drafted by Alibaba Cloud Computing Co...

10 Years Later, Alibaba Returns to Hong Kong: From "Impossible" to "Essential"On August 23, Alibaba announced that it would formally complete its primary listing in Hong Kong on August 28, achieving a dual primary listing in New York and Hong Kong. This marks a shift in Alibaba's listing status in Hong Kong from "secondary listing" to "primary listing," signifying the fulfillment of its return after a decade of "reluctant measures...

Alibaba to Launch AI Conversational Procurement Engine, Revolutionizing Global Procurement for SMEsAlibaba's International Digital Commerce Group announced the upcoming launch of its AI Conversational Procurement Engine in September, aiming to bring a revolutionary experience to global procurement for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through intelligent capabilities.This engine will deeply integrate all of Alibaba's e-commerce platforms, including Alibaba...