Alibaba's Large-Scale Ambition: 90% of New Roles Focused on AI Future!

Experts have often predicted a huge shift toward greater dependency on AI in workplaces. According to recent reports from Jiemian, Alibaba has announced the launch of a large-scale recruitment drive. The multinational technology company is planning to open hundreds of job positions, 90% of which are related to artificial intelligence (AI).

Core Focus 

This initiative will have a primary focus on Alibaba's AI-to-C business, which refers to the consumer-facing artificial intelligence business system, encompassing multiple products and teams. This includes Quark, "Tongyi" (spun off from Alibaba Cloud), and the Tmall Genie team. 

Additionally, this AI recruitment initiative is expected to target talents in cutting-edge technologies and applications, such as text processing, multimodal large models, and AI agents. To boost the process, early February saw the Alibaba Group welcome Xu Zhuhong, a top global AI scientist and former Vice President of Salesforce. He will be responsible for the fundamental research and application solutions development of the AI-to-C business.

Tongyi, the AI application under Alibaba has also been integrated into Alibaba's Intelligent Information Business Group while the Tmall Genie team and Quark product team are charged with exploring the possibilities of new hardware such as AI glasses.