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Alibaba

Alibaba Group enables businesses to transform the way they market, sell, operate, and improve their efficiencies.
Crunchbase, retrieved 2024-05-16
CountryChina
SectorSoftware & IT Services
Websitehttp://alibabagroup.com

Publications

Between 2014 and 2024, Alibaba researchers released4,316 AI research articles
  • #6
    in PARAT for number of AI research articles
  • 29.41
    citations per AI article on average (#127 in PARAT)
  • 889
    highly cited articles (#6 in PARAT)
  • +23.8%
    growth in Alibaba's public AI research (20192022)
  • 2,003
    articles at top AI conferences (#5 in PARAT)
  • 61.4%
    of Alibaba's total public research was AI-focused

Alibaba's top AI research topics

Subfield
Articles
Citations per article
Growth (20192022)
CV publications158139.645.09
NLP publications105625.612.08
Robotics publications8317.417.6
AI safety publications15351.456.92
Large language model publications47533.566.85

Patents

Between 2014 and 2024, Alibaba filed2,164 AI-related patents
  • #15
    in PARAT for number of AI-related patents filed
  • 72.6%
    growth in Alibaba's AI-related patent filing (20162019)
  • 961
    AI-related patents were granted to Alibaba (20162019)
  • 7.3%
    of Alibaba's filed patents were AI-related

Top AI application areas across Alibaba's filed patents

Subfield
Patents filed
Growth (20162019)
Computer vision patents36027.66%
Planning and scheduling patents20287.26%
Speech processing patents8987.57%
Knowledge representation patents68-20%
Analytics and algorithms patents3656.67%

Top use cases across Alibaba's filed AI patents

Subfield
Patents filed
Growth (20162019)
Personal devices and computing patents125664.6%
Business patents39574.88%
Telecommunications patents18429.54%
Banking and finance patents13396.39%
Security patents8714.34%

Workforce

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, 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. 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.