On March 3rd, Alibaba's first corporate engagement of the new year featured founder Jack Ma visiting Yungu School in Hangzhou alongside core executives from Alibaba and Ant Group. They engaged in discussions with the school's principal and teachers regarding the challenges and opportunities presented by artificial intelligence.

According to the school's official social media account, the meeting was attended by Alibaba Group Chairman Joe Tsai, CEO Eddie Wu, Risk Committee Chairman Shao Xiaofeng, and Taobao and Tmall Group CEO Trudy Dai. From Ant Group, Chairman and CEO Eric Jing and President Han Xinyi were also present. The rare full assembly of the top leadership underscores the significant emphasis both Alibaba Group and Ant Group are placing on AI development.

Jack Ma stated that the AI era is arriving rapidly, with an impact on society that exceeds imagination. He noted that no one is fully prepared, but teenagers hold the greatest hope and opportunity for adaptation. Therefore, he and his team visited Yungu School to share Alibaba's increasingly clear insights on AI with the educators.

Alibaba has been making steadfast investments in the AI sector. During the recent Spring Festival holiday, the company achieved a dual breakthrough in AI: its latest large language model, Qwen3.5-Plus, demonstrates performance comparable to Gemini 3 Pro, while the Qwen app has rapidly grown into a widely-used national AI application. Recently, the formation of Alibaba's AI "golden triangle," known as "Tong Yun Ge" and comprising the Tongyi Lab, Alibaba Cloud, and T-Head, was revealed for the first time. This trio combines T-Head's fully self-developed chips, Alibaba Cloud's leading position in the Asia-Pacific region, and the globally top-ranked open-source model, Qwen. Currently, Alibaba and Google are the only two technology companies worldwide with top-tier capabilities across the three critical domains of large models, cloud computing, and semiconductor chips.