Alibaba Creates CEO-Led Technology Committee Amid Intensifying AI Race

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Reports on Alibaba's internal restructuring to centralize AI leadership, relevant to understanding how major AI labs organize governance and accelerate capabilities development in the competitive Chinese AI landscape.

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Alibaba has established a high-level Technology Committee led by CEO Eddie Wu to consolidate AI leadership and accelerate development. The restructuring elevates the Tongyi Laboratory into a dedicated Large Model Business Unit and appoints Li Feifei as Alibaba Cloud's CTO. These moves reflect intensifying competition in China's AI model and agent space.

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•Alibaba formed a CEO-led Technology Committee to sharpen AI focus amid competition in China's model and agent markets.
•Zhou Jingren, former Alibaba Cloud CTO, becomes chief AI architect and leads the new Tongyi Large Model Business Unit.
•Li Feifei appointed as Alibaba Cloud CTO to lead technology and AI infrastructure.
•Tongyi Laboratory (developer of Qwen LLM series) upgraded to a dedicated business unit, formalizing its central role.
•Restructuring follows creation of the Alibaba Token Hub Business Group consolidating core AI teams and products.

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 2 -MIN READ 2 -MIN Listen Iris Deng in Shenzhen Published: 9:27pm, 8 Apr 2026 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.

 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.

 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’s business technology and AI inference platforms, after previously leading its food delivery operations.

 Advertisement In parallel, Li Feifei has been appointed to lead Alibaba Cloud’s technology and AI infrastructure, while also taking on the role of cloud CTO, effective Wednesday.

 The restructuring follows the recent creation of the Alibaba Token Hub (ATH) Business Group, which consolidates the company’s core AI teams and products. Photo: Reuters Alibaba has also upgraded its Tongyi Laboratory – the developer of its Qwen series of large language models – into a dedicated Tongyi Large Model Business Unit, led by Zhou. The move formalises the lab’s role at the centre of the company’s model development efforts. Advertisement Advertisement Select Voice Select Speed 0.8x 0.9x 1.0x 1.1x 1.2x 1.5x 1.75x 00:00 00:00 1.00 x

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