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Alibaba announced today a major upgrade to its AI business structure, merging the Tongyi Large Model Business Unit and the Future Life Lab, and officially establishing the Token Foundry Business Unit, which will be directly supervised by the Group CEO Wu Yongming.
At the same time, Alibaba partner Zhou Jingren has been appointed as Alibaba's Chief Scientist and is leading the establishment of the Alibaba AI Future Research Institute, focusing on the exploration and breakthroughs of cutting-edge AI technologies. In addition, Zheng Bo will lead the Happy Horse and Happy Oyster business teams into the newly established Token Foundry Business Unit.
This structural adjustment represents Alibaba's continued investment and deepening of its AI strategy. As the key figure in building the Tongyi large model team from scratch and establishing the Qwen series models as the global leader, Zhou Jingren has now been granted the highest academic title in Alibaba's technical system, reflecting the group's strategic focus on frontier basic research. Currently, Alibaba's AI business has entered a positive cycle of both technological and commercial development.
In terms of technology, the latest Qwen-3.7 model ranks among the top three globally and first domestically in its coding capabilities, establishing a solid technical barrier within the developer community and industry clients; in terms of business, the Q4 financial report released last month disclosed for the first time that Alibaba's AI business has moved beyond the initial investment phase, entering a commercialization return period, and has received positive feedback from the capital market.