Alibaba
ACTIVEChinese technology and e-commerce conglomerate based in Hangzhou, owner of Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun), DAMO Academy, and the Qwen / Tongyi Qianwen open-language-model family.
Alibaba
Founded 1999 · Hangzhou, ChinaFounders
A former English teacher from Hangzhou who in 1999 launched Alibaba.com with 17 co-founders as a B2B platform for Chinese exporters. He built it into a global e-commerce, cloud, and fintech giant. He stepped down from executive roles in 2019.
Taiwanese-Canadian lawyer and financier who joined Alibaba in 1999 as one of the first 18 co-founders. The architect of the company's global financial expansion and currently Chairman of Alibaba Group (since 2023).
One of the 18 Alibaba co-founders, long-time HR and people head; later CEO of Ant Financial (Ant Group) and Lazada.
Domain of activity
9 areas · 12 technologies · 7 industries- Cloud AI
- AI infrastructure
- AI platforms
- Language models
- Multimodal models
- Agent systems
- Computer Vision
- Content generation
- Data analytics
- Foundation Models
- LLM
- Multimodal AI
- Generative AI
- Agentic AI
- Fine-tuning
- RAG
- Computer vision
- NLP
- Speech AI
- MLOps
- AI accelerators
- Retail
- Logistics & warehousing
- Finance & banking
- Media & entertainment
- Telecommunications
- Education
- Healthcare
Global presence
HQ Hangzhou · 4 offices · 5 regionsScale & funding
founded 1999Products & solutions
1 model families
Profile & metadata
4 classification · 8 external linksClassification
- Statusactive
- Development stagemature
- Listed onYes
- Organization typeBig Tech
