{"id":232487,"date":"2026-04-08T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/alibaba-creates-ceo-led-technology-committee-amid-intensifying-ai-race\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T09:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:40:11","slug":"alibaba-creates-ceo-led-technology-committee-amid-intensifying-ai-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/alibaba-creates-ceo-led-technology-committee-amid-intensifying-ai-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba creates CEO-led technology committee amid intensifying AI race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/article\/3349428\/alibaba-creates-ceo-led-technology-committee-amid-intensifying-ai-race\">Alibaba creates CEO-led technology committee amid intensifying AI race<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/article\/3349428\/alibaba-creates-ceo-led-technology-committee-amid-intensifying-ai-race\">https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/article\/3349428\/alibaba-creates-ceo-led-technology-committee-amid-intensifying-ai-race<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-08 09:27:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.scmp.com\">www.scmp.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chinese e-commerce and AI giant Alibaba Group Holding has set up a high-level technology committee led by CEO Eddie Wu Yongming, as part of a broader restructuring to sharpen its focus on artificial intelligence amid intensifying competition.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Hangzhou-based company formed the Alibaba Group Technology Committee as part of its efforts to accelerate AI development, according to an internal letter from Wu to staff on Wednesday. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The committee brings together several senior executives, including Zhou Jingren, the former chief technology officer of Alibaba Cloud, who will serve as its chief AI architect. Group CTO Wu Zeming will focus on the company\u2019s business technology and AI inference platforms, after previously leading its food delivery operations.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In parallel, Li Feifei has been appointed to lead Alibaba Cloud\u2019s technology and AI infrastructure, while also taking on the role of cloud CTO, effective Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The restructuring follows the recent creation of the Alibaba Token Hub (ATH) Business Group, which consolidates the company\u2019s core AI teams and products. Photo: ReutersAlibaba has also upgraded its <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Tongyi Laboratory<\/span> \u2013 the developer of its Qwen series of large language models \u2013 into a dedicated Tongyi Large Model Business Unit, led by Zhou. The move formalises the lab\u2019s role at the centre of the company\u2019s model development efforts.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/article\/3349428\/alibaba-creates-ceo-led-technology-committee-amid-intensifying-ai-race\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alibaba creates CEO-led technology committee amid intensifying AI race https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/article\/3349428\/alibaba-creates-ceo-led-technology-committee-amid-intensifying-ai-race Publish Date: 2026-04-08 09:27:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/og_image_scmp_generic\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/04\/08\/8a7c5de7-4f59-44cd-a837-a903d793e7cb_7d93e192.jpg?itok=NUBmRkOs&v=1775654817","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232489,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232487\/revisions\/232489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}