Ali, from group buying to the metamorphosis of a tech giant
In recent years, with the rapid development of the Internet, e-commerce shopping has risen rapidly, and on this basis, the model has continued to innovate, live streaming has sprung up, and social group buying has suddenly exploded, which seems to have become another outlet in the e-commerce industry. But this barbaric growth was exposed to many problems, so it was directly criticized by the People's Daily. But recently, the People's Daily published an article praising Ali, why is there such a change?
In the early days of community group buying, major capitals frantically deployed, such as Ali, Tencent, JD.com, Meituan, Pinduoduo, and even Didi who took a taxi also participated, and these giants have invested heavily to start a new round of e-commerce battles. Even if it is a new e-commerce model, the development of community group buying is still the previous routine, obtaining funds through financing in the early stage, and then fighting a price war, thinking of squeezing out competitors at low prices, and frantically grabbing land before harvesting. As a result, it is naturally uncompetitive vegetable farmers and vegetable traders who suffer, and consumers are naturally injured in the end.
Ali is the core player of community group buying, first investing heavily in supporting "Hema Fresh" and "Shihui Group", and later investing in Hangzhou Caihuasuan Company, and then carrying out business merger adjustments, and constantly increasing community group buying. In this regard, the People's Daily could not read it, and issued a comment at that time, hoping that the Internet giants would not only worry about the traffic of a few bundles of cabbage and a few pounds of fruit, but should invest more in scientific and technological innovation, and the sea of stars of science and technology is the right way. At the same time as the People's Daily spoke, the regulatory authorities also quickly intervened and introduced corresponding control measures. As a result, community group buying began to develop in the direction of norms, becoming more rational, and no longer relying solely on price wars to develop barbarically.
Ali also reacted quickly and began to use its advantages to promote community group buying with big data and a strong logistics supply network. That is to say, Ali found a reasonable way to operate community group buying and began to help farmers and farmers. Therefore, recently the People's Daily issued another article affirming such community group buying. The article, titled "Putting Fresh Produce on the Internet Express," highlights how Alibaba's community group-buying platform, Taocaicai, works. Taocaicai not only helps farmers sell agricultural products and achieve sales increase, but also tells about Taocaicai's community group buying, so that rural people have a "cloud shelf" rich in fresh products and can buy affordable products at their doorstep.
From criticism to praise, it is mainly due to Ali's change, no longer the previous model, but focusing on the application of relevant technologies to practice, and truly enabling the massive algorithms and big data mastered to effectively serve the general public. Since being fined hefty for "either-or" monopolistic behavior, Ali has indeed changed. Even this year's Double 11 has begun to change, no longer simply pursuing sales amount and growth rate, but paying more attention to growth quality and consumer experience. The focus is that Double 11 will also further help rural revitalization, relying on the efficient promotion and logistics mechanism of e-commerce platforms, opening up all aspects of production and marketing, expanding agricultural product sales channels, driving the surge in sales of agricultural products, and beginning to promote common prosperity.
Not only that, Ma Yun also left two technological backhands for Ali and began to continue to play the role of giants. One is Alibaba Cloud. This is really developed by Jack Ma's unique vision and investing a lot of money under the public's opinion. Now the domestic market share is far ahead and occupies the first place, ranking third in the world, second only to Amazon and Microsoft. According to recent reports, Alibaba Cloud's share in China in the third quarter was 38.3%, and HUAWEI CLOUD's was 17.0%, which shows its strength. Today's latest news, Alibaba Cloud's IaaS infrastructure capabilities ranked first in the world, scoring the highest in the four core evaluations of computing, storage, networking, and security, and China Cloud surpassed international vendors such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google for the first time.
The second is the Dharma Academy. Ma Yun spent 100 billion yuan to establish before retirement, which is an important measure for technology. DAMO Academy is still very powerful, and has now developed into an international first-class research institution with a complete layout and a gathering of bulls, and has won more than 60 world firsts in the fields of AI, quantum, chips, and autonomous driving in the past three years since its establishment. Some time ago, DAMO Academy AI successfully defeated international giants such as Facebook and Microsoft in "reading pictures and meeting ideas", setting a new record in accuracy. And also hatched a flat-headed brother, specializing in chip research and development, and also achieved outstanding results. Recently, Pingtou released the 5nm cloud chip Yitian 710, which is the industry's strongest ARM server chip.
From this point of view, the two backhands left by Ma Yun are not simple, which is enough to show that Ma Yun's unique vision has long been laying out Ali's transformation to technology, and now Aliyun and Damo Academy have grown into Ali's two ace unicorns. However, Ma Yun still went far in the financial layout. I hope that Ali can completely change and become a responsible Internet giant, and hope to be able to go deeper in scientific and technological innovation and make greater achievements in the field of science and technology!
