On September 17, Beijing time, the 2020 Yunqi Conference was held online. Alibaba Cloud President Zhang Jianfeng (Hua Ming Xing Dian) announced that Alibaba Cloud has entered the 2.0 era. Feitian Cloud, the "supercomputer", will be equipped with a digital native operating system and provide A window-like interface similar to Windows allows people who do not understand the code to use the cloud capabilities. This will provide a new mode of interaction between humans and cloud computing, making the cloud easier to use, and making application development easier. Any enterprise or individual does not need to understand the code to have the capabilities of cloudification, dataization, intelligence, mobility, and IoT.
At the same time, two heavyweight products were released:
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The first cloud computer "No Shadow", this is a "supercomputer" that grows on the cloud. Just connect a C-Key the size of a business card holder to a screen to enter the dedicated cloud computer desktop and access Various applications and files can be used to expand computing power in the cloud at any time for office communication, design modeling, animation rendering and other operations. In the future, everyone can have a supercomputer on the cloud.
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The first robot "Little Man Donkey" also released the robot platform and officially entered the robot track. Xiaoman donkey robot integrates the cutting-edge artificial intelligence and autonomous driving technology of Dharma Academy. It has human-like cognitive intelligence and the brain's emergency response speed is 7 times that of humans. It is reported that Alibaba has registered and established Xiaomanlu Intelligent Technology Company to promote the development and mass production of robots.
The following is a record of Xingdian speech:
Hello everyone, I am Zhang Jianfeng from Alibaba. Welcome to the Yunqi Conference. This is our 12th Yunqi Conference. 2020 is an extraordinary year. Great changes have taken place in people's life and work styles. Clouds have come to us from the sky. This year, our Yunqi Conference will also be held on the cloud. Cloud class and cloud office are some of the most important things that will happen in 2020. Today "everything can be cloud", cloud is becoming a carrier of this era and a sign of digital development.
From a digital perspective, there are more than 300 million people and 15 million organizations on DingTalk. A large number of companies are working through DingTalk and through the cloud, especially through methods such as video conferencing and remote office work. .
The public service field also carries out work through digital means and digital applications. There are probably more than 1 million civil servants working on DingTalk in Zhejiang Province, and they generate about 10 million messages every day. The original information is through telephone, email, etc., and today it is done through mobile tools like Dingding. Do circulation.
Alibaba probably has more than 15 million pieces of information flowing on the platform every day. In the past year, Alibaba has approximately 150 million electronic streams generated on the platform. The digital approach has a profound impact on the way our company operates internally.
Why has digitalization developed so fast this year? I think:
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First, the epidemic has accelerated the process of digitalization. We used to talk about cloud and big data, but none of them has been so real this year and has such a profound impact on our lives, so that each of us can feel it. And this year, there is a phenomenon that a large number of new applications are constantly appearing, and they are constantly affecting our work and life through digital means.
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Second, it depends on the achievements of our infrastructure construction in the past 10 years. Especially infrastructure such as cloud and big data. Today, a health code can be launched within 3 days, and a new application can be launched within a few days, all because the original cloud infrastructure and the original big data platform have played a significant value.
After such work comes out, we need a platform to display them. This is what we are talking about, an office platform based on DingTalk. Such an office platform not only profoundly changed the way we work, but also profoundly affected the way we develop applications. Based on these infrastructures, it also makes our application development easier.
For Alibaba Cloud, we have solved a very big problem in the past ten years, that is, the problem of cloudification of an infrastructure. We know that in the era of IT, the foundation of digitalization was supported by a number of individual PCs. When a single PC cannot be supported, we will continue to upgrade the PC, and then introduce minicomputers, mainframes, and introduce more complicated solutions. For example, storage, CPU, etc. are constantly upgraded.
As a result, a single computer continues to become more complex and expensive, and its iteration speed is slower. But after entering the cloud era, we found a more effective way to deal with the problems caused by this infrastructure, which is distributed computing.
In particular, Internet companies have generally adopted distributed systems to solve the problem of the original IT facilities becoming larger, more expensive, and more complex. The same is true for Alibaba. We use distributed systems to solve some of our own problems, because we originally used e-commerce as a platform. The e-commerce platform is a very complex Internet application. If the original solution is used to do it, I think it is impossible to have so many Internet companies today, because the cost is very expensive.
At that time, we were talking about whether we can turn distributed technology into a facility for all other companies in the society to use. In this case, there is still a problem to be solved, how to bring some scheduling capabilities on top of distributed technology, and bring some management and control capabilities, this is the most simple concept when the cloud was born. Alibaba itself also came here. We solved Alibaba's own problems through a distributed system ten years ago. Since ten years ago, we have used systems like Alibaba Cloud to solve the problem of socialization of our own technical capabilities. Our internally developed system is called "Flying Cloud Operating System" . Alibaba Cloud has successfully solved the problem of resource cloudification through the Feitian Cloud operating system. Through our two years of hard work, we have achieved great success in computing, storage, network, security and other aspects, especially the integration of software and hardware. improvement.
But today I think this is not enough. Enterprises not only need to solve the problem of IT resource service, but also solve the problems of intelligent, digital, and mobile applications for them. So we hope that on the cloud, we can provide a more complete platform.
In the past two years, we proposed to solve the problem of collaborative office under the premise of solving the problem of business middle stage and data middle stage. We call " DingTalk One ". We hope that the cloud will not only integrate well with big data and business. We also hope that through a mobile platform like DingTalk, we can provide a software development platform for enterprise application organizations above us. New platform.
As you all know, in the past, our software development was highly dependent on hardware, and the operating system shielded the hardware. After the birth of software engineering, it has been committed to the hope that the software can be componentized, because this can greatly improve the efficiency of software development.
Today I think it should go further than the original software engineering components. We hope to use more capabilities as a component to redefine the development method of the above software system applications. Therefore, our capabilities and component capabilities include not only cloud capabilities, but also digital, intelligent, and mobile capabilities. We hope that if you want to create a new App, a new application should be constructed in a very convenient and fast way. So we call it a "digital native operating system." I think the definition of this operating system should be broader than the simple operating system in the past. It is not only a system capability, but also a component capability, an organizational capability, and a technical capability.
For example, we currently serve about 15 million organizations on DingTalk, 95% of which are small and medium enterprises. Of course, there are also very large organizations. We also took a look. We have 7 organizations with more than one million people. Such organizations provide them with a new type of collaboration through today’s cloud, big data, and DingTalk mobile collaboration platforms. Development environment.
Like Alibaba itself, there are probably more than 1,500 applications on our platform. Many of our customers, including government and enterprise, have more than 1,000 applications. They have built 1,000 applications on them. In the past, if one thousand applications were to be built, how much cost and effort would it take to build so many applications. Second, he built so many applications, so many applications can be connected to each other, and the interconnection may be difficult to imagine before, because most applications were originally built vertically.
Today we have 15 million customers, and more than 13 million customers are our small and medium-sized enterprises. It turned out that it was difficult for them to build their own applications. After they have this new type of platform today, they can easily make the entire organization online, digital, and intelligent. It turned out that how a small company cares about IT infrastructure, how to use big data, and how to have intelligent capabilities is hard to imagine. So two days ago, we used to say that, like Taobao and Tmall, our entire retail business has been digitized and Internetized. We want cloud + intelligence + big data + collaborative mobile office. We want to bring the productivity of the entire organization, especially management, organization and application capabilities, to online, digital, and to help them realize intelligence. .
With so much foundation, we can also understand why we can launch a health code in Hangzhou within 3 days, or within 2 days. It took 1 night in Zhejiang and we spent 1 All day in the evening, I pushed this set to Zhejiang Province. Because we have a very good infrastructure to do such a support, most of our applications are not developed from scratch, we are a new type of integration.
I think so many clouds, big data, including new types of collaborative mobile office, I think it is not only for our company itself to improve efficiency. I think its biggest contribution is to make our business and our organization more agile and easier to develop applications. It means easier to innovate. If it is easier to innovate, it means that our company can make trial and error more easily. If you try and make mistakes, you can keep this company very dynamic. Because it only needs to care about its core issues, it doesn't need to care about those issues that it is not good at.
Second, if the whole society is in this form, it can bring about greater coordination of the whole society. We were talking about it before, for the government, it is the first time for the government to use such a unified platform to coordinate government workers, enterprises, enterprises that it serves, and the people it serves. This is a bit like "Double 11". "Double 11" is not something Taobao and Tmall can complete. It is a great synergy of the whole society. But this big synergy can be organized very efficiently because of the ecosystems like Taobao and Tmall. I think this is the value of the platform and the value of the ecology.
The same is true today. Enterprises have become more agile. With such a platform, it can achieve cross-enterprise and cross-organizational collaboration across society. This is the case for the government and many of our companies. Our company is called Fosun, and it has invested in about a hundred companies. Today, DingTalk has built such a platform by itself, and it uses this platform for efficient collaboration of its invested companies. The first is to do collaboration; the second is to provide public services. I think this is the way for future corporate collaboration.
In addition, we have also observed that in recent years, especially the industrial Internet, urban brain, and IoT, there are also many concepts and a lot of talk. I think this kind of problem is essentially a question of how to digitize the physical world. Through IoT, through some sensors, through some controllers, and through some connections, including 5G, we hope to digitize the production equipment, production process parameters, including process controllers. In this way, we can calculate the collected data to reduce energy consumption and save electricity. We can also do apparent detection through artificial intelligence. Especially suitable for some production processes with highly complex parameters, it is very difficult for humans to judge, but this aspect is precisely the best place for computers and artificial intelligence to do joint process optimization.
Through this kind of thing, I think we can truly exert our digital and intelligent capabilities. The city to be managed by the city brain has physical facilities such as highways, traffic, fire hydrants, parking spaces, etc. Optimize the planning and design of the city to truly solve these problems fundamentally. Finally, through the cloud, through the big data on the cloud, the intelligence on the cloud, the collaborative office on the cloud, and the IoT on the cloud, we can truly build a new digital native operating system. This is our idea.
Today, Alibaba Cloud, I think it has upgraded from the original 1.0 to 2.0, from the simple and narrow "Flying" cloud platform to an existing good cloud platform, plus the above digital native operating system, which is composed of Such a composite platform.
So we call the cloud nail integration, providing a mobile, digital, and intelligent platform for application development. We also hope that the cloud is integrated. There are various new types of terminals, including IT terminals, IoT terminals, and edge computing composed of other terminals to form a new cloud integration.
The digital native operating system is a cloud-based operating system with integrated capabilities of collaboration, mobile, data intelligence, and IoT. The original cloud is like a DOS system, installing a DOS system on the computer. If you want to develop a complex application interface, you need to know a lot of skills. Today we hope that this system will be a Windows-like system, and it will be windowed. It is very easy for you to develop some new applications.
Let us more enterprises, let us more organizations, it does not need to understand the code, it can have cloud, data, intelligence, mobile, IoT capabilities. Let cloud spread to more companies and more people like hydropower and coal.
The " digital native operating system " we talked about today is deeply defining a new type of organization, making this organization different from before, and also deeply defining some new software development methods. Its previous development methods are process-based , The information system will become an intelligent, future-oriented data intelligent and mobile new system. To achieve a more powerful platform and collaboration between organizations, I think this is the essential change that the new digital system can bring in the future.
I think there is a whole set of ideas, methods and systems. It is very happy that we have made some significant progress in digital government, new finance, new retail, and many internal communication and production systems of enterprises through our efforts in the past few years.
Alibaba Cloud 2.0, I think it is a combination of cloud + digital native operating system. We hope to change the way people use the cloud, and we also hope to change the way people develop applications. In the end, let our organization, our society and enterprises become smarter, and truly enter a digital society.
Cloud computing has profoundly changed the shape of IT infrastructure, and the era of mainframes has become a distributed era. We believe that with the development of cloud computing, especially the development of cloud business, some profound changes will take place in the form of the terminal.
Today, Alibaba Cloud also launched its own solution, and we released Alibaba Cloud’s own computer for the first time today, which we call "Wuying". In the past, personal computers were called PCs (Personal Computers), so today this is a cloud-era computer, called Cloud Computer, and we call it a CC computer.
Through the back-end cloud, it has unlimited computing power. It is not only used in the home, but also as a personal computer in the home. It can also be used on the enterprise side, many government offices, and some corporate offices, which can be replaced by this computer.
As long as it is equipped with a screen, it can do anything you do on the computer. It can also do things you can’t do on a computer, such as doing some very complex calculations, such as doing some work that a traditional single computer can’t do, rendering a large video, or doing it Some professional work, it can be done through "Shadless".
We know today that the original terminal is composed of PCs. Everyone needs a PC at home. The PC has its own hard disk, CPU, and screen. No matter how you say it, whether you are in a company, an organization, or a family, the utilization rate of PCs is very low.
Second, as the hardware upgrades, PCs must be upgraded iteratively, which may be upgraded every two years or every three years. And the PC, I don’t think it can always meet your needs. For example, if you suddenly have an intensive calculation to do today, your PC may not be able to fully adapt, and you need to upgrade. But after the upgrade, you will find that a lot of time is idle again. So with the development of cloud, we also think that in the future, everyone will have their own host on the cloud, and this host is very flexible. You can use it when you want to use it, and when you don't use it, you can temporarily return the host; when you need intensive computing, you can expand the computing power anytime and anywhere. Expand to as big as you want, a very flexible facility.
Third, you can save all your personal data in the cloud, and you don’t need to spend time on migration.
It has high security because it basically has no external interfaces, and all data will be stored in the cloud today. Its speed depends on some capabilities on the cloud. Today, in the cloud, you can apply for a very large resource because of a timely demand. We have also developed a complete operating system in the cloud to intelligently combine your work interface and arrange your work schedule according to your work habits and work content.
I believe that in the future, the computer, the final computer, and the main body may all be in the cloud. In your client, it is mainly an interface for operation, and we also hope that everyone will experience "No Shadow".
In the era of digital natives, many scenarios of new retail and local life will bring explosive demand for delivery. We estimate that in the near future, there may be more than 1 billion orders to be delivered every day.
However, in the entire logistics system, terminal logistics is the most costly and least efficient link. We have been thinking about how to use technology to solve this problem. So today we are going to release Alibaba's first logistics solution, a robot called Xiaomanlu.
This is a terminal logistics solution launched by our Alibaba Dharma Academy Autonomous Driving Laboratory, which will bring you a more convenient and intelligent receiving experience. We have seen Xiaoman Donkey complete various challenges in real-life scenarios. It can be seen that our Xiaoman Donkey is still quite smart, quite capable, and quite safe. It can be as intelligent as a human driving a vehicle, automatically recognize the direction of an object, and plan routes flexibly in dense crowds. It can achieve centimeter-level high-precision positioning even under weak and no GPS conditions.
Of course, for a robot, safety is also our first consideration. Especially in scenes such as communities, schools, parks, etc., we use a five-fold safety system such as active avoidance, emergency braking, and remote guarding to ensure that, and under this safety system, our automatic driving rate has reached a standard of 99.9999%. .
This robot is technically supported by the Dharma Academy Robotics Platform, which integrates software and hardware. This platform integrates components such as chassis, sensors, and embedded computing units. It can realize the development of robots in multiple scenarios. We can also implement it on this platform. Security patrols, epidemic prevention and killing, and scenic spot tours will all perform very well.