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Culture and Values
Mission
To make it easy to do business anywhere
Vision
We aspire to be a good company that will last for 102 years. We envision that our customers will meet, work and live at Alibaba.
Values
Customers first, employees second, shareholders third
Trust makes everything simple
Change is the only constant
Today's best performance is tomorrow's baseline
If not now, when? If not me, who?
Live seriously, work happily
Milestones
Alibaba Group was established in 1999 by 18 people led by Jack Ma, a former English teacher from Hangzhou, China. From the outset, the company’s founders shared a belief that the Internet would level the playing field by enabling small enterprises to leverage innovation and technology to grow and compete more effectively in the domestic and global economies.
January
Alibaba released the visual-language open model, Qwen2.5-VL. The model demonstrates remarkable multimodal capabilities and serves as a visual agent to facilitate the execution of simple tasks on computers and mobile devices by directing the use of various tools.
January
Alibaba unveiled its proprietary flagship large language model(LLM) Qwen2.5-Max. As a cutting-edge Mixture of Experts (MoE) model, Qwen2.5-Max demonstrates exceptional strengths in knowledge, coding, general capabilities, and human alignment.
February
Alibaba announced plans to invest at least RMB380 billion over the next three years to advance its cloud computing and AI infrastructure. This investment will exceed Alibaba’s total AI and cloud spending over the past decade.
March
Alibaba released a new version of the Quark application, a comprehensive AI assistant powered by Alibaba’s Qwen-based advanced reasoning model. Quark is the first within Alibaba’s general user-facing businesses to fully leverage its proprietary foundation models, and is designed to fulfill the work and life needs of more than 200 million users in China.
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Leadership
JOE TSAI
Chairman
EDDIE WU
Director and Chief Executive Officer
J. MICHAEL EVANS
Director and President
MAGGIE WU
Director
TOBY XU
Chief Financial Officer
JANE JIANG
Chief People Officer
SARA YU
General Counsel
FAN JIANG
Chief Executive Officer, Alibaba E-commerce Business Group
LIN WAN
Chief Executive Officer, Cainiao Smart Logistics Network Limited
LUYUAN FAN
Chief Executive Officer, Digital Media and Entertainment Group
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