Alibaba Group
Alibaba's mission is to make it easy to do business anywhere. It provides commerce marketplaces, logistics, cloud infrastructure, AI, digital media, local services and collaboration tools that help merchants, brands, retailers and enterprises market, sell, operate and digitally transform.
At a Glance
- Consumers and households
- Merchants, brands and retailers
- Wholesale buyers and suppliers
- Small and medium-sized enterprises
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AI Tools by Alibaba Group
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Qwen3 Embedding
Text Embedding and Reranking Models
Qwen-Agent
LLM Agent Framework for Qwen
Zvec
In-Process Vector Database Library
Open Code Review
Open Source AI Code Review CLI
OpenSandbox
AI Sandbox Runtime for Agents
Qwen3
Open Weight LLMs by Alibaba
Page Agent
AI Browser Automation Framework
Alibaba Cloud Coding Plan
AI Coding Plan for Alibaba Cloud
Qwen Chat
Alibaba Cloud AI Chat Assistant
Alibaba Cloud Model Studio
AI Model Deployment Platform
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Latest News
Alibaba Group announced completion of an HK$80 billion placing of new shares in Hong Kong.
Alibaba Group announced June Quarter 2026 results.
Alibaba filed its fiscal 2026 Form 20-F and published a letter from its chairman and CEO describing its AI + Cloud strategy.
Alibaba announced March Quarter 2026 and Fiscal Year 2026 results.
Products & Services
China consumer e-commerce marketplace connecting individual sellers, merchants and consumers.
Business-to-consumer marketplace for brands and retailers in China.
Global business-to-business wholesale marketplace.
Global consumer marketplace enabling cross-border retail.
Market Position
Alibaba combines large China commerce marketplaces with international commerce, logistics, cloud infrastructure and proprietary/open AI models. It competes with Amazon, JD.com, PDD/Pinduoduo, Tencent and other Chinese platforms in commerce and digital services, and with AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud in cloud and AI; Qwen differentiates the group through a broad model portfolio, multilingual capability, open releases and integration with Alibaba's commerce and cloud ecosystem.
Leadership
Founders
Jack Ma (Ma Yun)
Former English teacher from Hangzhou, China; led the 18-person founding team and was Alibaba's founding chairman.
Joseph C. Tsai
Joined Alibaba in 1999 as a member of the founding team; served as chief financial officer until 2013 and later executive vice chairman before becoming chairman.
Eddie Yongming Wu
Co-founder and founding technology director in 1999; subsequently led technology and product roles at Alipay, Alimama, Taobao and Alibaba's search, advertising and mobile businesses.
Executive Team
Joseph C. Tsai
Chairman
Founding-team member since 1999; former CFO and executive vice chairman; board member of affiliate Ant Group.
Eddie Yongming Wu
Director and Chief Executive Officer
Co-founder and founding technology director; former CTO of Alipay and Taobao and leader of search, advertising and mobile businesses.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Alibaba was established in 1999 by 18 people led by Jack Ma. The founders believed the Internet could level the playing field for small enterprises by letting them use innovation and technology to compete in domestic and global economies; the initial business was a business-to-business marketplace.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Marketplace customer-management and advertising services, commissions and transaction/service fees, direct sales, membership and value-added services, cloud consumption and subscription/contract services, logistics services, digital media and entertainment memberships/advertising, and local-services commerce. Alibaba also monetizes enterprise AI and cloud infrastructure and related applications.
Target Markets
- Consumers and households
- Merchants, brands and retailers
- Wholesale buyers and suppliers
- Small and medium-sized enterprises
- Enterprise and public-sector cloud customers
- Developers and AI application builders
- Merchant storefronts, wholesale sourcing and online retail
- Brand marketing, customer acquisition and marketplace operations
- Cross-border buying, selling and logistics
- Enterprise cloud migration, data platforms and AI application development
- Semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation, code retrieval and reranking
- Text classification, clustering and multilingual/bitext mining
- Olympic Broadcasting Services and the International Olympic Committee
- Global enterprises using Alibaba Cloud and Qwen for AI, cloud and industry applications