Alibaba
Alibaba Group enables businesses to transform the way they market, sell, operate, and improve their efficiencies.
Crunchbase, retrieved 2024-05-16| Country | China |
|---|---|
| Sector | Software & IT Services |
| Website | http://alibabagroup.com |
Between 2013 and 2023, Alibaba researchers released3,705 AI research articles
- #6in PARAT for number of AI research articles
- 22.47citations per AI article on average (#134 in PARAT)
- 731highly cited articles (#6 in PARAT)
- +67.6%growth in Alibaba's public AI research (2018–2021)
- 1,664articles at top AI conferences (#5 in PARAT)
- 62.2%of Alibaba's total public research was AI-focused
Alibaba's top AI research topics
Subfield | Articles | Citations per article | Growth (2018–2021) |
|---|---|---|---|
| CV publications | 1328 | 30.3 | 88.97 |
| NLP publications | 917 | 19.3 | 53.72 |
| Robotics publications | 66 | 13.2 | 40.91 |
Between 2013 and 2023, Alibaba filed2,097 AI-related patents
- #13in PARAT for number of AI-related patents filed
- 38.7%growth in Alibaba's AI-related patent filing (2017–2020)
- 847AI-related patents were granted to Alibaba (2017–2020)
- 7%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 | 347 | 28.32% |
| Planning and scheduling patents | 198 | -3.31% |
| Speech processing patents | 86 | 71.33% |
| Knowledge representation patents | 63 | -11.67% |
| Measuring and testing patents | 37 | 337.5% |
Top use cases across Alibaba's filed AI patents
Subfield | Patents filed | Growth (2017–2020) |
|---|---|---|
| Personal devices and computing patents | 1214 | 35.96% |
| Business patents | 391 | 18.33% |
| Telecommunications patents | 177 | 17.79% |
| Banking and finance patents | 132 | -1.59% |
| Security patents | 86 | -11.08% |
PARAT workforce data for this Chinese company are unreliable. Use with extreme caution. Read more >>
670
AI jobs
According to our data, Alibaba currently employs about 670 AI workers (#66 rank in PARAT). AI workers in PARAT include anyone a high probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
3,149
Tech Tier 1 jobs
According to our data, Alibaba currently employs about 3,149 Tech Tier 1 workers (#115 rank in PARAT).Tech Tier 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, Clarivate Web of Science, and other leading sources. Additional descriptive metadata in PARAT comes from the Crunchbase Open Data Map (powered by Crunchbase) and PermID. For details on our sourcing, methodology, and limitations, see the tool documentation.