On March 3, Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba, along with core management members such as蔡崇信 and 吴泳铭, appeared at Hangzhou Yungu School, engaging in in-depth exchanges with teachers and students on the opportunities and challenges of the AI era, sending a clear signal that Alibaba Group and Ant Group are fully increasing their focus on AI strategy.

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During the exchange, Ma pointed out that the acceleration of the AI era will have a profound impact on society, and the younger generation, as the hope of the future, needs to be equipped with the ability to cope with technological changes. This rare gathering of the leadership of Alibaba and Ant Group aims to share the recent in-depth insights of Alibaba in the AI field.

In fact, Alibaba has entered an explosive phase in AI technology research and development. During the Spring Festival, the new large model Qwen3.5-Plus was officially launched, with performance comparable to Gemini3Pro; at the same time, Qwen APP quickly became a national-level AI application due to its technological advantages. Currently, the "Golden Triangle" strategic matrix of AI composed by Tongyi Lab, Alibaba Cloud, and Pingtouge has taken shape, building a complete full-chain closed loop from the underlying self-developed chip stack, Asia-Pacific leading cloud computing infrastructure, to the global top open-source model "Qwen".

This layout makes Alibaba the second company in the world, after Google, that has top self-research capabilities in three core areas: large models, cloud services, and computing chips. As AI technology moves from the laboratory to the forefront of education and social governance, the high attention from the core layer of Alibaba indicates that large model technology will accelerate from computing power competition to deep scenario empowerment and ecological construction.