Alibaba TechnologyJeff Zhang, Chief Technology Officer, Alibaba Group

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WORLD-CLASS TECHNOLOGIES RESHAPE WORLD-CLASS BUSINESSES

WORLD-CLASS PROBLEMS DRIVE WORLD-CLASS TECHNOLOGIES

Note: 1. As of August 31, 2018

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Speed is Boosted from 100 Gbps to 400 Gbps The Only IPv6 Cloud Service Vendor in China

ServersFPGA-based Accelerators

Self-developed AliFlash V3

Immersion CoolingPower Usage Efficiency (PUE) Approaches 1.0

The World’s First Immersion Cooling Internet Server Cluster

Data Centers49

Infrastructure Supports Alibaba’s Global E-commerce Ecosystem

Networks200+ Regions around the WorldAvailable in

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Cluster Scheduling System Enhances Resource Efficiency

17% 45%

Sigma FuxiOnline Tasks Offline Tasks

Resource Management System

Data Center ClustersReduction in IT Cost per 10k Transactions

on the Single’s Day Shopping FestivalAverage CPU Utilization Rate of Clusters

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Note: 1. As of Aug 2018

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Self-Developed, Full Stack Technologies and Solutions for Database and Storage Systems

Heterogeneous Hardware(GPU/FPGA, RDMA, NVM, OpenSSD)

PANGU DADIDistributed Storage Distributed Memory

TAIR

LindormNo-SQL

X-DB PolarDBOLTP

HybridDB DRDS HTAP Data Lake AnalyticsAnalyticDB

OLAPMulti-modelVectorDB

TSDB

Utility

DTS DMS

Self-DrivingCTC

Services

10+

Real-time Processing Capability of AnalyticDB325,000

Peak Throughput of X-DB

100+ PBData Sources Analyzed by Data Lake Analytics

6x MySQLRead and Write Throughputs of PolarDB

Sales Transactions per Second

Worker

Scale Out

Netw

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Shared NothingWorker

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Shared Storage

DiskDisk Disk Disk Disk

Worker Worker WorkerWorker Worker Worker

Notes: 1. As of Aug 2018 2. For Singles Day 2017

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The World’s Largest E-commerce Knowledge Graph

10 million Vertices

1 trillion Edges 10 million Edges Traversal per Second

Other Items

Refrigerator Kitchen Appliances

Rice Cooker

Family of 5 Members

Large Capacity Rice

Cooker

Above 5 Liters

Countertop Appliances

Major Appliances

Large Capacity

Refrigerator

Above 400

Liters

MoreMore

Other Items

Family of 5 Members

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Note: 1. As of Aug 2018

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Indoor High-Definition Map Indoor 3D Reconstruction

Note: 1. As of August 31, 2018 8

Machine Translation Reading ComprehensionNatural Language Processing

AliTranx AliReaderAliNLP5 Champions In World-class Machine

Translation Competitions (WMT)Surpassed Humans on SQuAD

Reading ComprehensionChampion at Global Semantic

Understanding Competition “SemEval"

Traffic Drive and User Acquisition

Language Directions48

Multilingual Technologies Make Cross-border Trade Easier

1 millionServed Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs）

Search on Website

Product Display

Consumer Inquiry

Payment & Logistics

Customer Service

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Tmall Genie: No.1 Smart Speaker Market Share in China

5 million Units Sold

Platforms

Devices

ContentA

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100 50 million Appliance Categories Registered Devices

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Distributed Voice Interaction Enhances Smart Home Experience

Voice Control 86mm x 86mm Distributed Deployment

Far-field Sound Pickup with Dual Microphones5 meters

Immersion Control Experience360

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200 Research Collaboration Projects

10 50Countries Universities

XFinancial TechnologyRobotData ComputingMachine Intelligence

•Speech Intelligence •Vision Intelligence •Language Technology •Decision Intelligence •City Brain

•Computing Technology •Data Analytics & Intelligence •Database & Storage

•Intelligent Transportation •Smart Logistics

•Financial Intelligence •Blockchain •Biometrics

•Quantum Lab •AI Lab

Global Innovation Partnership4+X Labs

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8 Cities 300Beijing Shenzhen

Tel Aviv-Yafo

Bellevue

Singapore

Sunnyvale

Hangzhou

Researchers

New York

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Cloud-Edge Intelligent Chipset

AliNPU V1 AliNPU V2 AliNPU Lite

Video/Image Processing

General AI Requirements

Embedded Requirements Deep-learning

Inference CapabilityMass Production of Self-developed CPU IP Core

CK902 Support the 3rd Generation RISC-V Instruction System

Building Block of IoT Infrastructure Integrated with AliOS

10x New Release

City Brain Industry Brain Smart Security

Smart Home Autonomous Driving Robotics

Cloud-Edge AI Inference Chip

Training/Inference General Chip

IoT Specialized Chip Overall Performance

/Power Efficiency

40xDATA CENTER

Improvement

Improvement

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Quantum Computing: Disruptive Computing Power for the Future

For Logistics, Finance, Materials, Chemistry, etc.Quantum-Enhanced Solutions

Quantum Computing System

Quantum Algorithms

Quantum Processor

Chinese Academy of Sciences -Alibaba Quantum Computing Laboratory

Zhejiang University -Alibaba Joint Center for Quantum Information TechnologiesTaiZhang

The First Successful Simulation of

Benchmarking 81-Qubits Random Quantum Circuit

Quantum-Classical Heterogeneous ComputingHigh-Precision Superconducting Processor

For Machine Learning, Optimization, and Physics Simulation

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