Alibaba establishes new group technology committee, upgrades Tongyi Large Model Business Unit, accelerates AI construction On the afternoon of April 8th, Sina Technology exclusively learned that Alibaba Group CEO Wu Yongming released an internal letter announcing organizational adjustments related to AI, including the establishment of a new group technical committee, upgrading the Tongyi Large Model Business Unit, and accelerating AI construction. According to an internal letter, Alibaba has established a technical committee at the group level, led by Wu Yongming, with members including Zhou Jingren, Wu Zemin, and Li Feifei. Among them, Zhou Jingren serves as the Chief AI Architect of the Technical Committee, Li Feifei is responsible for Alibaba Cloud technology and AI cloud infrastructure construction, and Wu Zemin is responsible for the construction of the group's business technology platform and AI inference platform. Around the overall goal of accelerating AI construction, Alibaba will also upgrade the Tongyi Laboratory to the Tongyi Large Model Business Unit, which will be led by Zhou Jingren; Li Feifei has been appointed as the CTO of Alibaba Cloud; Wu Zemin focuses on the CTO work of Alibaba Group, and the CEO position of Taobao Flash Shopping is taken over by Lei Yanqin. 2026 is a crucial year for Alibaba's AI to accelerate its development. From the establishment of the ATH business group with the core goal of "creating tokens, delivering tokens, and applying tokens", to the latest model Qwen 3.6 Plus winning the OpenRouter global model weekly call volume championship, Alibaba has been continuously making new moves in the AI field recently. This adjustment means gathering advantageous forces and resources and investing them in the most critical battlefield, indicating that Alibaba has entered a period of comprehensive AI acceleration. (Sina Technology)