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 intelligentization possible. Alibaba Cloud will take cloud computing as the cornerstone and AI as the engine to participate in the epoch-making transformation from digitization to intelligence.
Based on the practice of serving more than 4 million paying customers around the world, Alibaba Cloud proposes a new paradigm for transformation from digitization to intelligence, that is, upgrading from traditional IT infrastructure to cloud computing, accelerating business online, organizational collaboration, and application intelligence, and ultimately realizing industrial upgrade.
Online business is the starting point of all digitalization
Cai Yinghua believes that only by transforming traditional business activities into an online method can data become assets and intelligence become possible.
Starbucks China has tens of millions of members. In the process of online and offline integrated development, it is faced with the needs of optimizing customer experience and improving the real-time and precision of marketing decisions. In 2021, Starbucks China and Alibaba Cloud will cooperate in an all-round way, making full use of Alibaba Cloud's flexibility and cloud-native technology capabilities, and promoting the construction of a data center on the cloud to further ensure the continuity of business operations and greatly improve the efficiency of digital marketing.
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 within 8 hours.
At present, Alibaba Cloud has set up 6 major service centers and 16 local service teams around the world, covering all 24 time zones, providing 24/7 uninterrupted service; relying on its own continuous accumulation, Alibaba Cloud has more than 130 global compliance qualifications, and is an Asian partner. Cloud vendor with the most comprehensive qualifications
Organizational synergy makes it possible for large enterprises to be efficient and small enterprises to innovate
The transformation from digitization 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 realized, and a new form of enterprise production relationship can be built.
Shandong Energy has more than 220,000 employees. It is huge in size and complex in business. It uses DingTalk as a super portal for business digitization. More than 4,000 organizations and departments in the group have reached a 100% activation rate. Based on the elastic architecture integrating cloud and nails, the mobilization of business collaboration can be quickly realized. At the same time, a new application can be developed and launched in an average of 7 days, realizing "departmental innovation and group sharing".
There are 48 million business organizations in China, 99% of which are SMEs. The organizational synergy brought about by digital technology not only makes large enterprises more efficient, but also enables small enterprises to innovate agilely.
Youxiaoyoushi is a manufacturer of freeze-dried fruits in Jinjiang, Fujian Province. The digital foundation is weak, but recently a "factory programmer" used Dingding low-code tools to build a set for the company in two weeks. Smart logistics system.
According to reports, DingTalk has served 23 million business organizations and more than 600 million service users. Let small and medium-sized enterprises have the same innovation ability as large enterprises.
Apply intelligence, let data and intelligence make better decisions
Cai Yinghua believes that the essence of intelligence is based on digitalization, driven by data, and finally moving towards the process of application intelligence.
In order to better promote the development of general artificial intelligence technology represented by large models, Alibaba Cloud will further open the Feitian Smart Computing platform to provide more efficient, more open, and greener intelligent computing services for all walks of life, allowing mechanism-based General computing and data-based intelligent computing are moving towards integration.
Under the strategy of "Cloud + AI", the General Commissioner of China Southern Power Grid has cooperated with Alibaba Cloud to gradually build a power dispatching cloud platform for two places and three centers since 2019. At present, more than 200 business systems have been uploaded to the cloud and hatched The intelligent application of multiple power dispatchings has led to the actual implementation of AI technologies such as knowledge graphs, AI predictions, and reinforcement learning in the power grid. In the past four years, the 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.
(Illustration: Hu Rong, deputy general manager of China Southern Power Grid, shared the practice of digital transformation and intelligent dispatching of China Southern Power Grid)
At the 2023 Alibaba Cloud Summit, CCTV and Alibaba Cloud announced the strategic cooperation on "Intelligent Computing on the Cloud", and the two parties will carry out in-depth cooperation in the fields of big data and AIGC.
AI can also help improve urban well-being. As the sub-city center of Hubei Province, Yichang has complex terrain, and the number of cars has doubled, leading to serious congestion problems. AI can help improve urban happiness. As the sub-city center of Hubei Province, Yichang has complex terrain, and the number of cars has doubled, leading to serious congestion problems. Yichang City Brain, through the combination of digital twin and intelligent technology, provides data decision support for traffic guidance. Based on the "Yijian Life Escort" built by the city brain, the optimal travel route is planned for special vehicles such as 120 and 119, which can save up to 50% of the travel time.
At the 2023 Alibaba Cloud Summit, Hangzhou City announced the launch of the construction of the first "Hangzhou Computing Power Center" based in Hangzhou and facing the whole country, further expanding Hangzhou's leading position in the field of cloud computing. Alibaba Cloud will assist the "Hangzhou Computing Power Center" to create a converged computing platform, provide general computing and intelligent computing capabilities, deepen the application of artificial intelligence technology in industry, service industry and agriculture, and promote the development of emerging industries. Unified management of various computing power through the cloud, flexible scheduling of computing power resources, and the formation of a complete industrial ecology.
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 in 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.
A few days ago, five colleges and universities 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. The data fusion and transformation of scientific and technological achievements of the 5 schools provide computing power support.
Firmly unite with partners to jointly create value for customers
Upgrading traditional IT infrastructure to cloud computing, accelerating 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 more firmly unite with ecological partners, based on cloud computing product technology, and oriented to specific business scenarios, to create rich industry solutions and create value for customers.
According to reports, since the strategic goal of "adhering to partners first" was put forward in 2022, Alibaba Cloud has worked with 12,000+ partners to create 800+ joint solutions, serving more than 450,000 customers.