The verified answer
As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies Alibaba Group: 10 models, 2 deployments across 2 regions. 1 source back the record.
Overview
Chinese multinational technology company specializing in e-commerce, cloud computing, and AI. Headquartered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. Founded in 1999 by Jack Ma.
Operates as a brain company in the physical AI sector through its Alibaba Cloud division, which runs 106+ availability zones across 31+ regions globally. Committed $53B to AI and cloud infrastructure in 2025. Its Qwen family of large language models and Qwen-Robot suite position it as a major AI infrastructure provider for robotics and autonomous systems.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 2 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
Company-claimedPriced roundIPO post-money
Key facts
HQ
CEO
Tickersee public companies →
Founder
Chairman
President
Robotics investments
IPO
AI infrastructure investment
Global cloud footprint
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Partnerships
Every company Alibaba Group has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Alibaba Group on the deployment map
View the global map2 verified deployments across 2 regions, newest verified Jun 2026. Explore where Alibaba Group's robots are operating, by place and type.
Relationships
Current leadership (2)
- Joseph Tsai Chairman
- Eddie Wu CEO (co-founder)
Founders (1)
- Jack Macofounderno longer at company
later founded Cainiao Network, Alibaba DAMO Academy
Former / Previously (1)
- Jack Ma Founder
Safety record
No incidents on record for Alibaba Group.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Operator customers (1)
- Alibaba Group2 deployments
Recent coverage
Alibaba Group in third-party press
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- mature
- Counterparty risk class
- low
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
3 total · 3 operating
Every company Alibaba Group has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
All 3 partnerships
open in the atlas →- technology—operating
- alibaba-group x nvidiawithNVIDIA1108technology—operating
- Alibaba Group x SAPwithSAP SEtechnology—operating
Funding rounds (1)
- IPO2014-09-18
$25.0B · $167.6B post
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 26, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment recordedJun 9, 2026
Alibaba Cloud Johor Malaysia at Johor, Malaysia
- Deployment recordedNov 1, 2024
Alibaba Cloud Japan (Tokyo) at Higashi-Shinjuku Substation, Tokyo, Japan
- Deployment recordedNov 1, 2024
Alibaba Cloud Johor Malaysia at Johor
- Deployment recordedJan 1, 2024
Alibaba Cloud Saudi Arabia (Riyadh) at Riyadh
Sources (1)
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-09-06
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-09-06
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Alibaba Group.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Alibaba Group from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Z.AI Misses Lofty Sales Estimates As China AI Brawl Worsens
Z.AI Co. grew revenue far less than anticipated while its losses persisted, highlighting the mounting cost of fighting the likes of Moonshot and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. to stay…
Alibaba Cloud's Brazil debut puts LGPD and China's intelligence law on collision course
Alibaba Cloud opened its first South American cloud region in Brazil with two data centers, expanding to 106 availability zones across 31 regions globally.
Alibaba Releases Smaller, Cost-Effective Qwen AI Model
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. released the latest model under its popular Qwen series, a lower-priced platform aimed at driving adoption of its marquee AI offering globally.
Jack Ma Buys Alibaba Stock to Show Support for AI Buildout
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. co-founder Jack Ma has joined its most senior executives in picking up company stock, aiming to reverse a major selloff this week and quell concerns…
Alibaba Executives Buy $15 Million in Shares After New Offering
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s top two executives bought about HK$120 million ($15.3 million) worth of their company’s shares following a stock slump triggered by a capital raise…
Xpeng Robot Unit to Raise $900 Million From Likes of Alibaba
Xpeng Inc.’s robot unit plans to raise $900 million from investors including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd., bolstering the automaker’s push into humanoid…
Alibaba Raises $10 Billion in Record Hong Kong Share Sale
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. raised HK$80 billion ($10.2 billion) in Hong Kong’s biggest follow-on offering, underscoring its willingness to amass and spend vast sums to take the…
Alibaba Profit Dives 75% as AI Spending Ratchets Up
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s profit plunged more than 75% after the company increased quarterly capital spending to almost $10 billion to safeguard its position in the global AI…
Alibaba Profit Dives 75% After AI Spending Hits $10 Billion
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s profit plunged more than 75% after the Chinese company ratcheted up quarterly capital spending to almost $10 billion, aiming to safeguard its position…
Alibaba Shares Jump 5% as Alipay Launches New Merchant Platform
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. shares rose the most in two weeks as the launch of a new ecommerce platform boosted optimism toward the company before its June quarter earnings this…
America is arguing over the wrong AI obstacle
Last month, two Chinese companies released artificial intelligence models most people outside the industry know little about: Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI and Qwen3.8-Max by Alibaba…
Alibaba to Sell Gaming Arm for $1.5 Billion in Boost to AI Pivot
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is selling its gaming arm in a deal worth at least $1.5 billion that will boost the Chinese e-commerce leader’s pivot to AI.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/alibaba-group.md
- RSS feed: /companies/alibaba-group/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/586a7c4b-36a5-4b66-a97f-795a1aa32f16
- Revision history: /companies/alibaba-group/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Video
Take a look inside Alibaba's smart warehouse where robots do 70% of the work. They can carry up to 500 kilograms above them around the warehouse floor. They have special sensors to avoid colliding into each other and
Alibaba logistics arm Cainiao established a global network, ensuring 24-hours delivery in China, and 72 hours globally. With the goal to optimize the processing
Credit to Ricardo Monteiro https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardo-monteiro-1121a494/
Nestled inside one of Alibaba's Hema stores in Shanghai is the company's futuristic dining experience, Robot.He, where food is sourced, stored, and delivered by
Select some live seafood in one of Alibaba’s Hema grocery stores in Shanghai, and a robotic arm will whisk it away to a kitchen. Minutes later, a pod will turn
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Join our Robot Optimise Industry (ROI) Workshop: https://robophil.com/ Alibaba has just placed a massive $140M bet on humanoid robots, backing Shenzhen-based s
Alibaba’s Secret Robot AI Team Revealed! Breaking tech news: Alibaba’s Qwen technology lead has spun up an in-house robot AI team—what this means for robotics,
Alibaba has unveiled RynnBrain 1.1, an open-source Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model that allows multiple robots with different bodies to share the same AI "br
Get ready to experience the future of smartphones with Honor's groundbreaking Robot Phone, featuring a built-in motorized gimbal for cinematic shots. Meanwhile,
The extensive source details a transformative partnership between Alibaba Group and NVIDIA, announced in early 2024, focusing on advancing artificial intelligen
Alibaba’s RynnBrain is an open-source AI model designed to give robots better abilities to see, understand, and interact with the physical world. It aims to com
Heat Index
Serious56/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Alibaba Group draws attention at the 97th percentile but verifies reality at the 97th percentile among other robots. Hype Gap +0.8, 144th widest among other robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 12 verified deployments. Strong deployment footprint with 11 operational sites across 12 countries.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Sep 6, 2026