Alibaba
Alibaba Group enables businesses to transform the way they market, sell, operate, and improve their efficiencies.
Crunchbase, retrieved 2024-05-16| Country | China |
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| Sector | Software & IT Services |
| Website | http://alibabagroup.com |
Between 2015 and 2025, Alibaba researchers released4,233 AI research articles
- #6in PARAT for number of AI research articles
- 37.18citations per AI article on average (#105 in PARAT)
- 909highly cited articles (#6 in PARAT)
- +2.3%growth in Alibaba's public AI research (2020–2023)
- 1,738articles at top AI conferences (#4 in PARAT)
- 65.3%of Alibaba's total public research was AI-focused
Alibaba's top AI research topics
Subfield | Articles | Citations per article | Growth (2020–2023) |
|---|---|---|---|
| CV publications | 1562 | 50.1 | 19.6 |
| NLP publications | 988 | 31.9 | -0.72 |
| Robotics publications | 92 | 18.8 | 8.44 |
| AI safety publications | 142 | 67.8 | -2.25 |
| Large language model publications | 1160 | 38.4 | 26.35 |
Between 2015 and 2025, Alibaba filed2,406 AI-related patents
- #14in PARAT for number of AI-related patents filed
- 39%growth in Alibaba's AI-related patent filing (2017–2020)
- 1,194AI-related patents were granted to Alibaba (2017–2020)
- 8.3%of Alibaba's filed patents were AI-related
Top AI application areas across Alibaba's filed patents
Subfield | Patents filed | Growth (2017–2020) |
|---|---|---|
| Computer vision patents | 422 | 28.32% |
| Planning and scheduling patents | 209 | -4.45% |
| Speech processing patents | 111 | 71.33% |
| Knowledge representation patents | 92 | -11.67% |
| Analytics and algorithms patents | 39 | 156.67% |
Top use cases across Alibaba's filed AI patents
Subfield | Patents filed | Growth (2017–2020) |
|---|---|---|
| Personal devices and computing patents | 1408 | 35.97% |
| Business patents | 430 | 17.01% |
| Telecommunications patents | 204 | 22.73% |
| Banking and finance patents | 134 | -1.59% |
| Security patents | 88 | -10.26% |
PARAT workforce data for this Chinese company are unreliable. Use with extreme caution. Read more >>
409
AI jobs
According to our data, Alibaba currently employs about 409 AI workers (#118 rank in PARAT). AI workers in PARAT include anyone a high probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
2,103
Tech Team 1 jobs
According to our data, Alibaba currently employs about 2,103 Tech Team 1 workers (#166 rank in PARAT).Tech Team 1 workers include anyone with technical skills and a reasonable probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
The AI activity metrics in the Private-Sector AI Indicators dataset are derived from data from Revelio Labs, ETO's Merged Academic Corpus, and other sources. Additional descriptive metadata in PARAT comes from the Crunchbase Open Data Map (powered by Crunchbase) and PermID. Emerging technology topic classifications are based on work supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation under Grant No. G-2023-22358. For details on our sourcing, methodology, and limitations, see the tool documentation.