Alibaba Group CEO Wu Yongming recently issued an internal letter announcing organizational changes related to AI, including the establishment of a new group-level technology committee and the upgrade of the Tongyi Large Model Business Unit, as part of efforts to accelerate AI development.
According to the internal letter, Alibaba has set up a technology committee at the group level, with Wu Yongming serving as its head. The committee members include Zhou Jingren, Wu Zeming, and Li Feifei. Among them, Zhou Jingren has been appointed as the committee’s Chief AI Architect, Li Feifei will oversee Alibaba Cloud’s technology and AI cloud infrastructure, and Wu Zeming will be responsible for building the group’s business technology platform as well as its AI inference platform.
As part of the broader push to accelerate AI development, Alibaba has also upgraded Tongyi Lab into the Tongyi Large Model Business Unit, led by Zhou Jingren. Li Feifei has been named CTO of Alibaba Cloud. Wu Zeming will focus on his role as CTO of Alibaba Group, while Lei Yanqun has taken over his previous position as CEO of Taobao Flash Buy.
