On January 8, a user of a workplace social platform broke the news that "Alibaba Artificial Intelligence Labs (AI Labs) has become pornographic. Both Alibaba and Dharma Academy have deleted the pages of Ali AI Labs." On the hot search.
In response, Alibaba’s official response stated that the official website change was due to changes in the current organizational members, structure and functions of AI labs, which did not match the information on the previous page. The new department’s official website is under production, and an independent page will be launched later. . In the last round of architecture changes, AI labs has been integrated into cloud intelligence as a whole.
The original intention of AI Labs: technology landing is the primary goal
With the increasing voice that AI will be the future in the market, it was not until 2016 that Ali established an artificial intelligence laboratory. Regarding the positioning of the artificial intelligence laboratory, Jack Ma said at the 2017 Yunqi Conference: "More than 90% of the research items cannot only be in the laboratory, but must be in the market. Only in this way can this laboratory be able to go. long."
There are few results in 4 years, it is only a matter of time to be abandoned
Up to now, Alibaba Artificial Intelligence Lab has not released many project products, and there are only a handful of explosive products.
On July 5, 2017, the first intelligent voice terminal device "Tmall Genie X1" was released. In August of the same year, the Tmall Genie X1 smart speaker and the smart voice system AliGenie were launched. On March 22, 2017, 5 new products were released: 1. AliGenie 2.0, a new interactive engine; 2. "Elf Fire Eye" + XHolder; 3. Tmall Elf Cookie Edition; 4. Mini Smart with AliGenie language system Speaker; 5.3D smart projector Tmall Magic Screen, which can simultaneously cover multiple content platforms such as Wasu, Youku, and Tudou. Since then, Ali Artificial Intelligence Lab released upgrades to old products.
Among the products released by Ali Artificial Intelligence Lab, only the Tmall Genie smart speaker can be called a million-level sales explosion, and other products have faded out of ordinary people's vision. Compared with Ali's capital and talent investment in the artificial intelligence laboratory, this kind of achievement can be described as a drop in the bucket. Therefore, it is only a matter of time before it is abandoned or reorganized.
AI products are difficult to land, short-sightedness of capital is the main reason for the closure of Alibaba Artificial Intelligence Lab
In recent years, the wave of artificial intelligence has given birth to many artificial intelligence laboratories, and none of the Internet giants have fallen behind, because the capital, talent, and data owned by the Internet giants are precisely the three core elements of artificial intelligence, and the Ali Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is also doing this. Was established in the context of
But in contrast, as a listed company, Ali’s project resources are not unlimited, and they are also subject to checks and balances by capital market investors. After all, every financial report will allow investors to vote for the company with their feet.
Therefore, the main reason behind the closure of the Alibaba Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, which has few results, and the integration of Cloud Intelligence is actually the short-sightedness of market capital. This is also helpless for Jack Ma, a wealthy country. What do you think?