In China, the name Alibaba should be regarded as a household name, after all, it has brought us into the Internet era, and has also created many platforms including Taobao, Alipay, etc., bringing great convenience to people's lives, and all of this can be said to have a certain relationship with the rise of Alibaba.
Perhaps it is precisely because it led the development of an era that Alibaba has now developed into a powerful large group. As of December 23, 2021, its market capitalization has reached HK$2.46 trillion, equivalent to more than RMB2 trillion.
At the same time, in 2021, Alibaba also listed the top 500 private enterprises in China, "beating" well-known enterprises such as Lenovo, Tencent, Country Garden and so on with an annual revenue of more than 644.2 billion yuan. Of course, such an excellent enterprise, the business scope is also very extensive.
In addition to the platforms we are familiar with, there are well-known companies in various fields such as Ant Financial, Alibaba Cloud, Cainiao Network, etc., and even Alibaba has a research institute called "Dharma Academy".
Dharma Academy was established for 4 years, and Ma Yun said that it would invest 100 billion yuan in 3 years
Mentioning the name of "Dharma Academy", which is full of martial arts atmosphere, it seems that it cannot be associated with the "Research Institute", but in fact, The Dharma Academy is a "trump card" under Alibaba, mainly to do research and exploration in the field of science and technology, and was officially established in 2017.
According to the introduction of its official website, the original intention of the establishment of The Dharma Academy is three: first, in the next 20 years, to solve 100 million jobs in the world; second, during this period, transnational services, the population of more than 2 billion; third, to create a profitable platform for 10 million enterprises.
These three original intentions are often referred to as the "flags" set up at the beginning of the establishment of dharma academy, but these three original intentions are also three very big goals, and if a research institute wants to do this, it may not be able to do so in a short period of time. Fortunately, Ma Yun said at the Yunqi Conference that year:
"In the next three years, more than 100 billion yuan will be invested in technology research and development for DAMO Academy." Such a "commitment" seems to represent Alibaba's emphasis on dharma academy. Today, 4 years have passed since the establishment of this 100 billion-dollar Dharma Academy, how has it become now?
A powerful research institute
Judging from its current comprehensive strength, Dharma Academy is by no means an ordinary research institute, and it can fully afford the title of "great strength". According to Baidu Encyclopedia, Dharma Academy has a total of 14 laboratories, including quantum laboratories and speech laboratories.
In 2021, THE DHARMA Academy has newly established a 5G research laboratory, and at present, the number of its laboratories has reached 15. At the same time, including China, DAMO Academy has set up research centers in 8 regions around the world, and its staff structure has reached more than 30 university professors, as well as more than 10 IEEE Fellow-level scientists.
Such a "resume" in China can also be regarded as one of the best, perhaps because of this, so that the Dharma Academy in just 4 years of its establishment, won the first place in more than 60 international top competitions, the number of international top papers released, also reached more than 100, the number of academic papers is thousands.
Of course, Dharma Academy is not "on paper", from the perspective of scientific and technological achievements, Alibaba has also hatched two major scientific and technological products, Pingtou Ge Semiconductor and Little Wild Donkey. Moreover, it seems that under the "efforts" of Dharma Academy, Alibaba said that it has become the largest AI company in China.
From a data point of view, Alibaba AI serves about 1 billion people around the world, with more than 1 trillion daily calls, up to 1 billion images processed daily, and more than 1.2 million hours of daily video processing, etc. These data are inseparable from the "relationship" of Dharma Academy.
It can be said that the strength of DAMO Academy is strong, giving Alibaba a strong technical support. Now that it is 2021, the research of Dharma Academy seems to have the latest "achievements".
Dharma Academy's latest "achievements"
For example, in August, at the International Computer Vision Conference, THE REMOTE SENSING AI platform "AI EARTH" under the Dharma Academy created very brilliant results, winning the championship of the three major projects of LUAI, a very authoritative competition in this field, which is enough to see the hard strength of the Dharma Academy in the field of AI.
In addition, in November, the Dharma Academy "upgraded" the multimodal large model M6 it studied, and from the data point of view, it directly increased the parameters of this large model from trillion to 10 trillion, not only surpassing Microsoft and Google, but also on this basis, reducing energy consumption to 1% of the big model released last year, achieving industry leadership.
The most worth mentioning is that in December, the Dharma Academy directly developed a memory-computing integrated chip, and this is the world's first, DRAM-based 3D bond stacking chip, it is reported that in specific AI scenarios, this chip can increase the performance ratio to 300 times, performance to more than 10 times.
Because of this, the research results of this chip have been included in ISSCC 2022, which is the top conference in the field of chips.
From the above point of view, the Dharma Academy is indeed very outstanding, and there must be a lot of financial investment and thousands of experiments by researchers to make the Dharma Academy have today's achievements. In this way, Dharma Academy is moving towards its "three major goals", and it seems that it is not far away.