Alibaba Cloud Tsai Yinghua: Cloud and intelligence are integrated to make the industry fully intelligent

On April 11, at the 2023 Alibaba Cloud Summit, Cai Yinghua, chief commercial officer of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, said that the rapid development of computing power has made digitalization a certainty and intelligence possible. Alibaba Cloud will use cloud computing as its cornerstone and AI as its engine to participate in the epoch-making transformation from digitalization to intelligence.

Based on the practice of serving more than 4 million paying customers around the world, Alibaba Cloud proposes a new paradigm of transformation from digitalization to intelligence, that is, upgrading traditional IT infrastructure to cloud computing, accelerating business online, organizational collaboration, and application intelligence, and ultimately realizing industrialization upgrade.

[Small Biao] Business online is the starting point for all digitalization

Cai Yinghua believes that only by transforming traditional business activities into online methods can data become assets and intelligence become possible.

Starbucks China has tens of millions of members. In the process of integrated online and offline development, it faces demands for customer experience optimization, real-time and accurate marketing decision-making and other needs. In 2021, Starbucks China and Alibaba Cloud will fully cooperate, making full use of Alibaba Cloud's elasticity and cloud-native technical capabilities, and promoting the construction of cloud data middle platforms to further ensure the continuity of business operations and significantly improve digital marketing effectiveness.

Online business has also become the only way for Chinese enterprises to go overseas. Since entering the international market in 2014, Alibaba Cloud has helped more than 220,000 Chinese companies go overseas, achieving the world's fastest online delivery capability of 8 hours.

At present, Alibaba Cloud has set up 6 service centers and 16 local service teams around the world, covering all 24 time zones and providing 24/7 uninterrupted services. With its continuous accumulation, Alibaba Cloud has more than 130 global compliance qualifications, making it one of the leading Asian partners. The cloud vendor with the most comprehensive regulatory qualifications.

[Small Biao] Organizational collaboration makes it possible for large enterprises to be efficient and small enterprises to innovate.

The transformation from digitalization to intelligence is essentially "business transformation and organizational upgrading." Cai Yinghua said that through digital technology, efficient organizational collaboration and flexible resource arrangement can be achieved, and a new form of enterprise production relations can be built.

Shandong Energy has more than 220,000 employees. It is large and has complex business. It uses DingTalk as the super portal for business digitalization. More than 4,000 organizations and departments across the group have achieved a 100% activation rate. Based on the elastic architecture integrated with Cloud and Ding, we can quickly realize the mobility of business collaboration. At the same time, it takes an average of 7 days to develop and launch a new application, achieving "department innovation and group sharing."

There are 48 million business organizations in China, 99% of which are small and medium-sized enterprises. The organizational synergy brought about by digital technology not only makes large companies more efficient, but also allows small companies to innovate agilely.

Youling Youshi is a freeze-dried fruit manufacturer in Jinjiang, Fujian Province. It has a weak digital foundation, but recently a "factory programmer" used DingTalk low-code tools to build a set for the company in two weeks. Intelligent logistics system.

According to reports, DingTalk has served 23 million corporate organizations and served more than 600 million users. Let small and medium-sized enterprises have the same innovation capabilities as large enterprises.

[Small Standard] Apply intelligence to let data and intelligence make better decisions

Cai Yinghua believes that the essence of intelligence is to be based on digitalization, driven by data, and finally move towards the process of applying intelligence.

In order to better promote the development of general artificial intelligence technology represented by large models, Alibaba Cloud will further open up the Feitian Intelligent Computing Platform to provide more efficient, open, and green intelligent computing services for all walks of life, allowing mechanism-based General computing and data-based intelligent computing are moving toward integration.

Under the "Cloud + AI" strategy, China Southern Power Grid has cooperated with Alibaba Cloud to gradually build a power dispatching cloud platform in two places and three centers since 2019. Currently, more than 200 business systems have been uploaded to the cloud, and a power dispatching cloud platform has been hatched. The intelligent applications of multiple power dispatching have led to the practical implementation of AI technologies such as knowledge graphs, AI prediction, and reinforcement learning in the power grid. In the past four years, China Southern Power Grid has also held a power dispatching AI application competition based on the dispatching cloud platform to build an ecosystem for the power industry.

(Caption: Hu Rong, deputy general manager of China Southern Power Grid’s main dispatching department, shared the digital transformation and intelligent dispatching practices of China Southern Power Grid)

At the 2023 Alibaba Cloud Summit, CCTV.com and Alibaba Cloud announced a strategic cooperation on "Intelligent Computing on the Cloud". The two parties will carry out in-depth cooperation in fields such as big data and AIGC.

AI can also help improve urban happiness. As the urban sub-center of Hubei Province, Yichang has complex terrain, and the number of cars has doubled, resulting in prominent congestion problems. AI can help improve urban happiness. As the urban sub-center of Hubei Province, Yichang has complex terrain, and as the number of cars has doubled, congestion problems are prominent. Yichang City Brain provides data decision-making support for traffic regulation through the combination of digital twins and intelligent technology. The "Yijian Life Escort" created based on the city brain plans optimal travel routes for special vehicles such as 120 and 119, which can save up to 50% of travel time.

At the 2023 Alibaba Cloud Summit, Hangzhou announced the launch of the construction of the first "Hangzhou Computing Power Center" based in Hangzhou and oriented nationwide, further expanding Hangzhou's leading position in the field of cloud computing. Alibaba Cloud will assist the "Hangzhou Computing Power Center" to build a converged computing platform, provide general computing and intelligent computing capabilities, deepen the application of artificial intelligence technology in industry, service industries and agriculture, and promote the development of emerging industries. Through the cloud, a variety of computing power can be unified managed, computing power resources can be flexibly scheduled, and a complete industrial ecosystem can be formed.

In the field of AI for Science, artificial intelligence is bringing a major paradigm revolution to scientific research. At Fudan University, Alibaba Cloud participated in the construction of CFFF (Computing for the Future at Fudan), the first scientific computing platform for Chinese universities that integrates intelligent computing power and general computing power. It will also be the largest public computing power platform project for university scientific research in China. , to help more scientific research teams explore scientific research topics that could not be calculated in the past and create new scientific research methods.

Recently, five institutions including Chongqing University, Southwest University, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and Chongqing Electronic Engineering Vocational College signed a cooperation framework agreement with Alibaba Cloud. Based on the Chongqing Artificial Intelligence and Industrial Digital Innovation Research Platform, Alibaba Cloud provides this The five schools provide computing power support for data fusion and transformation of scientific and technological achievements.

[Xiaobiao] Firmly unite with partners to jointly create value for customers

Upgrading traditional IT infrastructure to cloud computing to accelerate business online, organizational collaboration, and application intelligence is the key to cloud computing's penetration into all walks of life.

The digital scenarios of thousands of industries require professional industry knowledge and upper-level application capabilities. Cai Yinghua said that Alibaba Cloud will work more firmly with ecological partners to create rich industry solutions based on cloud computing product technology and for specific business scenarios to create value for customers.

According to reports, since the strategic goal of "adhering to partners first" was proposed in 2022, Alibaba Cloud has worked with 12,000+ partners to create 800+ joint solutions and jointly served more than 450,000 customers.