On the morning of November 8th, the 2023 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit opened in Wuzhen, Tongxiang, Zhejiang. Alibaba Group CEO Wu Yongming spoke on behalf of leading companies at the plenary meeting. Wu Yongming stated that in the AI era, Alibaba aims to become an open technology platform enterprise that serves AI innovation throughout society.
This is the first time that the domestic internet industry has clearly proposed the positioning and direction of "technology platform enterprises".
There will be smarter next-generation products entering our lives
Wu Yongming believes that the era of intelligence has just begun, and all changes are in the early stages. "Everything is possible," and there are huge opportunities for development. He analyzed that AI computing has the intelligence to understand human language and the logic of things, can directly read user needs, and then schedule corresponding resources to actively adapt or create systems.
Wu Yongming's prediction: In the foreseeable future, all the product forms we are accustomed to in our lives will undergo changes, and more intelligent next-generation products will enter our lives. More small and medium-sized enterprises will use AI collaboration to flexibly replace some of the services currently only provided by large enterprises. The organizational and collaborative methods of production, manufacturing, and circulation will also undergo fundamental changes. AI assistants will be everywhere, becoming everyone's work and life Assistants in learning. Every enterprise will also be equipped with AI assistants, just like our smart cars today, assisted driving and autonomous driving have become standard equipment
Facing the AI era, Alibaba wants to become an open technology platform enterprise
Wu Yongming said that facing the AI era, Alibaba aims to become an open technology platform enterprise that serves AI innovation throughout society.
In recent years, the country has attached great importance to the construction of scientific and technological innovation platforms. Digital economy platform enterprises have the advantage of gathering technological elements and integrating innovative resources. As one of the leading platform enterprises, Alibaba has proposed the positioning and direction of "technology platform enterprises", which echoes the expectations of the country and the needs of the whole society.
It is understood that Alibaba has over 1.3 billion consumers worldwide, making it extremely difficult to handle massive real-time transactions, identify transaction risks, and provide personalized services to users. This has forced Alibaba to continuously make breakthroughs in fields such as cloud computing, voice intelligence, machine vision, and decision intelligence. As early as 2019, Alibaba launched research on big model technology.
Now, Alibaba has opened up a complete set of technical systems and infrastructure capabilities to the whole society in the form of platform services, extending platform capabilities from commodity trading to technology. Looking back on these 20 years, we have created digital business infrastructure services that cover transactions, logistics, payment, production, and other aspects, providing strong support for the development of the e-commerce industry. With AI becoming the key to China's digital economy innovation and breakthrough, Alibaba aims to become an open science and technology platform enterprise, providing infrastructure for AI innovation and transformation in a thousand industries, "said Wu Yongming.
Serving enterprises and developers, creating an open and prosperous AI ecosystem
Wu Yongming stated that in order to serve more enterprises and AI developers well, Alibaba insists on doing two things: first, providing a stable and efficient AI basic service system, especially strong cloud computing capabilities, to create a solid foundation for the training of AI in the entire industry and the use of AI in society. The second is to create an open and prosperous AI ecosystem.
It is understood that Alibaba is one of the earliest large-scale technology enterprises in China to open source large models, creating and operating China's leading AI model open source community "Magic Tower". Since the launch of the "Magic Building" community a year ago, the number of model downloads has exceeded 100 million. Not long ago, Alibaba released a one-stop large model service platform - Alibaba Cloud "Bailian", which helps small and medium-sized enterprises and developers carry out AI innovation at lower costs and more efficiently.