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Defeated Amazon and Google: Alibaba Cloud created a new world record
2018-12-27 10:40:12
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On December 25th, Stanford University released the latest DAWNBench deep learning reasoning list. Alibaba Cloud won the image recognition performance and cost double champion, breaking Amazon's record of 8 months, which is the first time the list appeared. Chinese technology company.

Stanford University DAWNBench is one of the most authoritative competitions in the field of artificial intelligence. It requires the participating organizations' computing platforms to accurately identify and classify 50,000 images. The test results show that Alibaba Cloud recognizes pictures 2.36 times faster than Amazon and 5.28 times faster than Google.

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Alibaba Cloud's artificial intelligence reasoning performance breaks records, surpassing AWS-based, Google hardware-based results

Behind Alibaba Cloud's record is the super computing power of the Alibaba Cloud computing platform. In this contest, the breakthrough point of Alibaba Cloud computing platform is to develop an acceleration framework for image recognition tasks, which can automatically compress the deep learning inference model from 32 bits to 8 bits, reducing the occupied computing resources by 4 times. It has also increased by 4 times. At present, the Alibaba Cloud computing platform can achieve 1000 trillion levels of deep learning performance per second.

Six years ago, Google brain identified the cat in the video for the first time through deep learning technology, which is considered to open a new era of artificial intelligence. But now, Alibaba Cloud ET brain can not only sort the massive pictures at the speed of Superman, but also quickly and finely identify fine-grained images of fine-grained images under the big picture categories. For example, the machine can not only recognize cats, but also quickly distinguish them. Different varieties of cats. Aliyun ET brain can now recognize 450,000 kinds of flowers and 10,000 kinds of birds in the world...

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At present, the super computing power of Alibaba Cloud Computing Platform has been applied to large-scale applications in artificial intelligence scenarios such as image recognition, speech recognition, and content recommendation. For example, Pat Li Tao provides more than 20 million users every day in Taobao and Tmall. Figure search for goods.

Yu Feng, head of Alibaba Cloud's flexible computing, said, "With the popularity of computational scenarios such as artificial intelligence, computing chips will have a specialization in the industry, and a substantial increase in computing power will become the cornerstone of business innovation."
 
Alibaba should launch their search engine like google and android like operating system if they want to become leader in real
AliOS (formerly Yun OS and Aliyun OS) is an Linux distribution developed by Alibaba Cloud, a subsidiary of Chinese company Alibaba Group. It is designed for smart devices such as smart TVs and it has been used as a mobile operating system. It is an operating system based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP).

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23 chip module makers such as Qualcomm cooperated with Ali to launch embedded AliOS chips respectively

2018-12-21 18:51
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Reporter | Li Jingze
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On December 21, 23 chip and module manufacturers including Qualcomm, MediaTek and Realtek attended the Alibaba Group IoT Eco-Partners Conference and announced that they have reached a cooperation with Alibaba to launch a chip module embedded with AliOS Things. Group products and will be sold online at Tmall.
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It is reported that the chip module vendors participating in this conference include Qualcomm, MediaTek, Realtek, Norwegian Nordic Semiconductor, China Mobile IoT, Mobile Communications, Rihai Intelligent, Gaoxingxing, Guanghetong, Ziguang Zhanrui, Shanghai Broadcom, 23 companies including Quanzhi, Lexin and Southern Silicon Valley.
These 23 chip module vendors covered almost all of the global IoT chip market. At the meeting, some of the participating chip module vendors displayed products that cooperated with Ali, and the products were printed with the words "Powered by AliOS Things". After embedding AliOS Things, the terminal devices using these chip module products will have convenient cloud capabilities.

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Alibaba introduced that AliOS Things is a national product networking operating system launched by its Alibaba IoT business unit. It is a lightweight IoT embedded operating system. The operating system is dedicated to building a cloud-integrated IoT infrastructure with minimal development. , cloud integration and other capabilities.

Li Wei, deputy general manager of Intelligent Modules Department of China Mobile Internet of Things Co., Ltd., said that the medium-moving module continues to be optimistic about the development of e-commerce channels for electronic component products. Currently, the OneMO brand of the mobile module is ranked in Tmall's module category search. It has reached the first place, and the mid-shift module with embedded AliOS Things has been imported into nearly 100 customers, which has achieved remarkable results in shortening the customer development cycle and providing stable and reliable application support.
Realtek R&S Semiconductor's IoT product line marketing director Jin Yiming said that the Realtek RTL8710B series has laid a solid foundation for Realtek to enter the white-light and small household appliances leading customers after transplanting AliOS Things. In 2018, the shipments based on AliOS Things have exceeded several hundred. Million.
Alibaba Cloud IoT Ecological Cooperation Director emphasized that since the release of open source in October 2017, AliOS Things has rapidly grown into a new type of IoT operating system with independent control and cloud integration in China, covering almost the head of the Internet of Things at home and abroad. Chip and module manufacturers. In the future, Ali will continue to empower the industry through technology and business.
This year, Alibaba has been on the chip frequently, not only established Pingtou Brother Semiconductor, but also held the first Tmall Chip Festival to accelerate the transformation of the chip industry to online marketing. For the IoT chip, the current IoT chip mainly uses various RTOS operating systems and lacks a strong ecology. The 23 international and domestic chip module manufacturers have built-in domestic operating systems, which means that domestic systems will gain global access. A bigger share.
 
Alibaba: The world's first flexible substation is put into business
RobotBOY 2018-12-27 10:00:50
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On December 26th, the world's first AC/DC distribution network based on flexible substation was put into commercial operation in the Alibaba Data Port located in Xiao Ertai Village, Zhangbei County. What is the future distribution network? It gives a prototype.

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Qiu Yufeng, dean of the Global Energy Internet Research Institute, said that this is the first great practice in the field of power electronics technology that was proposed and implemented by the Chinese. "History will remember this day."

He explained that flexible substations are efficient conversion of different forms of voltage and current, and accept and distribute electrical energy in a flexible, controlled, plug-and-play manner. Its "flexibility" is mainly reflected in: power supply and load access are flexible: AC power supply can also be DC power supply; power adjustment between different ports is smooth and uninterrupted: after one power failure, the other power supply automatically carries the full load. There are no interruptions; the power supply and the load are electrically connected, but the power quality problems (harmonics, reactive power, voltage dips) are isolated: it acts as a firewall to prevent harmonic pollution on the grid side from entering the user side. ,vice versa. The adjustment of the traditional substation can only be chosen one by one, and it is exclusive. AC and DC cannot be combined; all problems will be transmitted between the grid and the users. Under the condition of traditional substation, if the user directly uses the new energy as a power source, due to its intermittent nature, it will inevitably experience frequent power switching, frequent power supply interruption in a short time; flexible substation can solve this problem perfectly.

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Tianbo, Chairman of State Grid North Power, introduced the Zhangbei Flexible Substation and AC/DC Distribution Network Demonstration Project to introduce 2.5 MW photovoltaic poverty alleviation power generation in Desheng Village, Zhangbei County, which meets the green energy demand of Alibaba Data Port. It also guarantees a high quality power supply to it. According to preliminary calculations, photovoltaic power generation adopts DC boost, which improves the efficiency of photovoltaic system by about 2%; data server uses DC power supply, saving about 600,000 yuan per 10,000 servers, and reducing energy consumption by about 10%-20% in data centers.
 
Alibaba sells cement online: the largest order is 998,000 tons!
2019-01-02 09:05:23
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Cement Network Correspondent News: On December 27, 2018, at the "2018 China Industrial E-Commerce Conference", Wang Hai, Vice President of Alibaba Group, shared the theme of "Industrial E-Commerce: Promoting Digital Transformation of Manufacturing Industry". He said that the upgrading of consumption and industrial upgrading have promoted each other, and the Internet is expanding from the consumer sector to the industrial sector.

Wang Hai mentioned that many companies in the procurement field have begun to use the platform to make purchases more sunny, more transparent and more efficient. Alibaba 1688 on the platform of the whole large enterprise procurement, China Railway, Tiejian, China Tobacco, Shenhua, COFCO, Wanhua, Dow, Zhengda, etc. began their business procurement business on the Alibaba 1688 platform. For example, the heaviest transaction on the platform is 989,000 tons of cement concrete, the longest is 79,800 meters of cable, the most transaction is 542,000 welded porcelain rings, the most expensive transaction is 155 million yuan of electronic elements Device. He said that the Alibaba platform began to allow real corporate procurement to truly reach China's best suppliers in an open and transparent market environment, helping them to achieve cost reductions in corporate procurement.

Wang Hai's speech record

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Wang Hai, Vice President of Alibaba Group

Distinguished leaders and distinguished guests, I am very pleased to have the opportunity to share with you the experience and thinking of our digitalization and our entire industrial e-commerce on behalf of Alibaba.

First of all, I want to let everyone feel how digital is changing our entire life, changing our work, and changing our world. There are several sets of data here. The first set of data is that there were 1.04 billion parcels produced in Tmall Double 11 this year. The 1.04 billion parcels can reach shoppers within a week. How does Alibaba use digital technology to change the express and logistics industry, so that most of the 1.04 billion packages have been placed in the warehouses closest to consumers before they are actually sold out, so we can guarantee that we are in a very short time. Time allows China's entire express delivery industry to quickly fulfill the massive orders generated by the double 11.

The second one is our 1688 Amoy factory. We carry out digital transformation in a typical small garment processing factory in China. We use cloud computing, edge computing, AI technology and camera to scan 130 million times a day in the entire production line. Digital computing in the cloud and local, let our production line, capacity data network, help small garment factories and retail end to achieve greater efficiency in production and marketing synergies.

The third is our cross-border of 1688. We know that China is the source of the world's supply chain. So on 1688, we have 50 million Chinese-sourced supply chain goods being digitized and passed through 500,000 cross-border international retailers. Bringing these Chinese digital goods to the world's retail platforms and bringing them to consumers around the world is a change in our digitalization.

The fourth is Alipay 238 days, what does this mean? I used Alipay to work and live my own life for 238 days. Whether it is eating, staying at a hotel, taking a taxi, or taking the subway, all related work can be done through Alipay. I can completely make a digital wallet.

The fifth is that the online procurement rate of corporate procurement has reached 2%. We have also seen that many pioneering companies have begun to digitize their corporate procurement. Every aspect we see, including our lives, our work, and the way we work in our business are all digital.

We also see that the digitalization that everyone feels begins with the consumption of the Internet. In fact, our consumer, server, sales, marketing, distribution, and supply chain, manufacturing and procurement departments are actually doing Digitizing. Many of the companies on the platform with Alibaba are actually rapidly digitizing the entire industry chain and all the key elements of the entire commercial link.

For example, our server, starting with the digital robot such as Ali Xiaomi, let our Tmall double 11 business traffic, customers dozens of times or even hundreds of times more than usual, his service staff is reduced, he can serve at the same time More users, and have a very strong relationship with these users.

We also see the sales side, which allows the entire retail enterprise to make the business all over the country overnight, and even the whole world is digitally changing the business operation of the enterprise and the sales method of the enterprise. We see that all the companies on the marketing side can be closer to the market, closer to the users, users can be away from him, user preferences, market changes, user touch, user recall, user wake-up, all with the user The way of contact and operation have become digital.

We also see that all channel systems are being digitized. We started to look at the channel, not only did we sell the goods, but as a brand enterprise, as a production company, we did not sell the goods through channels, but we knew where each piece of goods was sold and ultimately Which market is sold, everything is traceable, recordable, and analyzable.

We also saw the entire production design, just like how to make the digital transformation of the factory production line just now, and the synergy between production and sales is higher. At the same time, we found that many companies have begun to use the previous services from sales to distribution, marketing, because they have enough understanding of the market, because they are close enough to the customer, they begin to contact the digital production results, and start to send the whole new product, and create new products. More targeted, the manufactured goods are the goods that the market needs. The manufactured goods are the goods that customers need, the inventory will be less and less, and their manufacturing cycle and new product release cycle will be shorter and shorter. These are digital. Bring the whole effect.

At the same time, we also see the procurement side of the enterprise. More enterprises have begun to use the power of digitization to be more transparent and transparent, and they are able to have a very high efficiency. This is in Alibaba, and we are practicing together with our vast merchants. The end-to-end digital evolution of the server, server, sales, marketing, distribution, supply chain, manufacturing, and enterprise procurement.

Especially in the last one or two years, we have seen that the traditional industrial, industrial and industrial brands are particularly active in the process of digitization, especially fast, and somewhat beyond our imagination. We used to think that the fields of industry, chemical industry, electricity, and electrician should be relatively traditional. There is a gap in the digitalization of our consumer goods in e-commerce. In fact, industrial brands and industrial fields have been very fast in the past two years, 1688. From the industrial market established in August 2017, more than 6,000 brands have settled in just over a year, and began to do four digital construction: digitization of goods, digitization of services, digitization of transactions and marketing. Digitizing. All industrial companies are entering the digital world at a faster rate and at a greater pace.

Therefore, we have seen the top 10 brands in the chemical industry, and the three giants of BASF, Dow, and electrical appliances have settled in. Our hardware tools and personal protection are also very fast entering the entire digital track, so we see The e-commerce and industrial digitalization of the entire industry is in full swing. After these industrial enterprises came in, how did they realize the benefits that digitalization brought to themselves? We see companies like ARKEMA. In fact, they say that the platform helps us break through the traditional offline channels, establish information barriers, directly face the customers in the long tail market, and learn which customers are buying, they really go in. It is closer to the market, closer to customers, and closer to market demand. This will also bring them a lot of thinking, will speed up their innovation, from packaging innovation, marketing solutions innovation, to technical specifications, new product development innovation, because closer to the market, closer to customers So it will renew new energy of innovation.

These chemical companies have undergone significant changes since they entered the industrial platform and industrial market of 1688. The first one is BASF. It has a paint that is used on high-end cars, but he is very surprised to find out who the buyer came over on this platform. The toy manufacturer of the Black Warrior of Star Wars began to use it at the high end. The paint on the car is used on high-end toys, even on high-end stereos. So for the brand, I found out that this product actually has more new industries. I don’t need to know it. I know that his products can enter a new field, and customers in new fields are very urgent. Looking for such a solution.

SOLVAY, STANLEY is the same, because e-commerce, so that the brand is closer to the customer, used to build a channel system to sell things, do not understand the market, customers, very far from the customer, but really will find on this platform It turns out that there is a very large demand in the world. The world is changing, the demand is changing, and customers are always looking for you.

Many brands have been working in the Chinese market for many years, but when they went to the platform, they really found that 70% of the customers were not touched by them before. They were always looking for them, but they could not find them. When they are doing sales digitalization and marketing digital transformation, they find that there is a huge market waiting for them. They will also learn more and more things from customers. This is the power of innovation brought about by digital transformation.

We have also seen that many pioneering companies in the field of corporate procurement have begun to use the platform of corporate procurement to make their purchases more sunny, more transparent and more efficient. Alibaba 1688 on the platform of the whole large enterprise procurement, we saw the procurement of large enterprises, China Railway, Tiejian, China Tobacco, Shenhua, COFCO, Wanhua, Dow, Zhengda, etc. began to carry out their Alibaba 1688 platform. Corporate procurement business. They began to form a very close relationship with the 1 million suppliers on the Alibaba platform, and began to let real corporate procurement truly reach the best suppliers in China in an open and transparent market environment, helping them to reduce the cost of corporate procurement. Improve efficiency. We saw that the heaviest transaction on the platform was 989,000 tons of cement concrete, the longest was 79,800 meters of cable, the most transaction was 542,000 welded porcelain rings, the most expensive transaction was 155 million yuan. Electronic Components. Throughout the 1688 large enterprise purchasers and our online merchant banks, the B-type payment, check, and all these systems can help companies make procurement more efficient and efficient.

A few typical examples, the overall procurement efficiency of Hunan Zhongyan increased by 60%, the cost was reduced by 20%, and green paperless procurement was realized. The China Railway Fourth Bureau, because it has projects all over the country, so with the help of Alibaba 1688 The platform for large procurement, no matter which city or region the project occurs in, in the 1688 large enterprise procurement platform, it can quickly find those suppliers that he can match, closer to him, and unify procurement and unification on this platform. management. Since the China Railway Fourth Bureau has used the 1688 large enterprise procurement platform, a total of 7.1 billion purchases have occurred. The last one is Wanhua Chemical, which is also our typical chemical company. He started to work with the 1688 platform to build an end-to-end, enterprise-wide, all-brand, all-digital, full-process enterprise procurement platform.

Finally, I am thinking, we have always mentioned B2C, C2C, B2B, but we believe that in the future, under the full integration of the entire manufacturing and service industries, the entire data link will be all-pass, we will definitely go to C2B, all The manufacturing industry will be very closely integrated with the service industry. All manufacturing industries will know who they are making goods for, how to make products that are truly competitive in the market, how to use the market, and use data to make their manufacturing capabilities and competitiveness. Continue to strengthen.

We believe that from the service, sales, marketing, supply chain, production design and the full digitization of the entire procurement side, and the digitization of all commercial factors, we will usher in the great synergy of the entire industry chain, and will also usher in the real efficiency improvement of the manufacturing industry. In the era of increased competitiveness, I believe that the future manufacturing industry must be a data-driven manufacturing industry. I believe that the future manufacturing industry must be a manufacturing industry closer to the market and closer to customers. I believe that the future manufacturing industry will definitely It is a faster, more efficient, and more innovative manufacturing industry.
 
Alibaba DAMO Academy

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On the first day of the opening year, Alibaba Damo directly hit a heavyweight: released the top ten technology trends in 2019 of Alibaba DAMO Academy
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In addition to seeing the new wind direction of 2019, the top ten technology trends released by the Alibaba DAMO Academy can also be used to see the full range of Ali technology in various fields.
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Others commented: "This is simply the 2019 strongest employment guide!"https://www.toutiao.com/a6641832946078581262/
 
Alibaba Group Releases World's First Digital Economy Intellectual Property Protection Evaluation System

https://www.toutiao.com/a6641093522277532173/
2018-12-31 17:54:39
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"As the Internet becomes the core infrastructure for economic operations, the global digital economy development trend calls for a new intellectual property protection evaluation system." On December 29, 2018, Sun Jungong, vice president of Alibaba Group, held the 2018 China Industrial Economy in Jiaxing, Zhejiang. At the annual "China Industry Economic Index Forum", the keynote speech "Building the Digital Economy Intellectual Property Protection Evaluation System" was published, and the world's first digital economic intellectual property protection evaluation system was released.



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Sun Jungong believes that intellectual property protection under the digital economy requires new rules: First, under the traditional intellectual property protection scenario, the relationship between government agencies, rights holders and consumers is relatively clear, and the scenarios of confirmation of rights, use rights, and rights protection are linear. The scene of the right to protect, use, and protect rights in the protection of intellectual property rights in the digital economy is that the right holders are seeking interaction with the state organs, interaction with the market, and interaction with the infringers. This interaction is a matter of time on the digital economic platform. In real-time, the platform can integrate online and offline confirmation, use rights, and rights protection scenarios. The platform becomes indispensable in helping multi-party interactions with rights holders. Second, with the development of cross-border trade, goods are presented globally. The trend of buying and selling, the current regional characteristics of intellectual property protection makes the cross-border trade intellectual property rights cost high, which is not conducive to the development of trade globalization. In the Sino-US trade friction, the US has always accused China of stealing intellectual property rights, demanding that China change its domestic policy, and requesting the WTO to negotiate with China on the so-called "discriminatory technology licensing requirements". Sun Jungong believes that we lack the evaluation tools of the digital economy intellectual property system, which has not effectively reflected China's great achievements in the areas of e-commerce and network power including innovation protection measures, intellectual property commercialization, and intellectual property protection. Sun Jungong reviewed the intellectual property protection process of Ali Group and believed that the Ali Group's digital economy ecological intellectual property system has been formed. Currently, it can provide users with all-round high-efficiency protection, and can accept requests from global intellectual property rights holders within 24 hours.

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Intellectual property protection in the digital economy requires new rules, and accordingly a special intellectual property protection evaluation system is needed to accurately evaluate new protections. Sun Jungong believes that the protection of intellectual property rights in the digital economy requires a special evaluation system, because the point-to-point connection has become a point-to-face, face-to-face relationship. The flattening of the entire network flattens the relationship between rights holders and the administration and the market. The right holder has enough capacity to quickly commercialize. However, in the face of complex content, the right to the right is plagued, and the uniqueness of creation is challenged. Therefore, the purpose of the right is to obtain the ownership in the high-frequency competition of the network and the data in the environment of dividing the clock.

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Sun Jungong introduced that the core evaluation index of digital economic intellectual property protection is “user experience + platform autonomy + social co-governance”. The digital economy intellectual property protection has the characteristics of platform autonomy, national governance, and full-member protection. It uses business logic to strengthen protection awareness, legal regulation, and technology. In the context of digital economic protection of intellectual property rights, the relationship between government agencies, rights holders, platforms, and consumers is flattened. The scenarios of determining rights, using rights, and safeguarding rights require multiple parties to participate in the linkage. The evaluation of intellectual property protection environment needs more consideration. Governance and autonomy.

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According to Alibaba Group model digital economy intellectual property protection experience: First, the governance of science and technology, data technology into governance technology; second, the rule of business, business logic to solve business problems; third is the rule of law, platform autonomy and social governance Combine. The means of scientific and technological governance and the setting of indicators: technology for determining rights, technology for using rights, and technology for safeguarding rights. Indicators for measuring technical governance include technical application, technology coverage, technical applicability, user interruption rate, technical accuracy, and technical output. Business governance tools and indicators: means of determining power, means of using rights, and means of safeguarding rights. Indicators for measuring business governance include business governance coverage, user interruption rate, number of platform intellectual property rules, business governance efficiency, and business governance engagement. Legal governance means and indicators setting: means of using rights and means of safeguarding rights. Indicators for measuring legal governance: the number of intellectual property litigation cases, the proportion of litigation cases in the platform, the rate of losing intellectual property rights in the platform, the number of cross-border IPR litigation cases, and the positive externalities of the platform.
 
Alibaba "face recognition" adds new features: online withdrawal of China's housing provident fund
2019-01-05 00:10:38
https://www.toutiao.com/a6642674753205174797/

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Recently, the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development announced that from now on, Zhejiang Province can withdraw the provident fund through Alipay “face recognition”. Yesterday, the reporter was confirmed from the Municipal Housing Provident Fund Management Center. As early as the end of September last year, the city had realized “no-rental extraction”, “retired withdrawal”, “resignation extraction” and “extraordinary and low-income extraction” four types of “face recognition”. extract.

It is understood that since last year, Zhejiang has taken the lead in proposing that government affairs should be upgraded from “maximum run once” to “do not run once”. The citizens can handle over 100 businesses online through the Alipay small program “Zhe Li Office”. Half of them support “face recognition”, including inquiries, withdrawal of provident fund, electronic documents, traffic payment, individual tax declaration, and one network management. Zhejiang has thus become one of the 30 “Digital China” construction best practices in the country. In April last year, the “Face Recognition” extraction of the provident fund was first piloted in Hangzhou and was promoted in various cities.

You only need to open Alipay to choose "City Service" - "CPF" - "CPF Collection", follow the process to indicate "face recognition", the whole process is only a few minutes. It is worth noting that the deposited employees who do not have the bank card information can go to the “Public Provident Fund Network Hall” (WeChat Gonghao: Wenzhou Housing Provident Fund) to bind the bank card and then operate the withdrawal.
 
Alibaba Alipay launches new business, discards garbage according to regulations can take money. Netizen: Jack MA is changing China
B2B网站大全 2019-01-12 11:00:00
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Alibaba Alipay is more than just a payment method, it has become a way of life. Alipay recently launched a new business: the garbage sorting and recycling platform, special person to collect garbage door-to-door service, and you can get money from alibaba, which has become a welfare.

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First open the Alibaba Alipay city service, select the garbage sorting and recycling, and then follow the prompts to complete the operation. When making an appointment, there will be a special person on-site service to weigh the waste, and the settled money will be automatically transferred to the cash withdrawal account set by myself. Some netizens have asked questions. If they are worthless waste, they can be exchanged for "energy" and redeem coupons or real objects at Alipay.

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I have to say that the service of Alibaba Alipay is really too convenient. It is very difficult to see the place where waste is collected. Generally, there are waste products in the house. Because of trouble, I choose to discard it at will, even many home appliances, some friends are too troublesome. And throw it away. Alipay, a door-to-door recycling service, not only solves people's needs, but also contributes to environmental protection.

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However, this service has not been promoted nationwide and is currently being piloted in 14 cities in the Yangtze River Delta. Many netizens have left a message, hoping that Alibaba will vigorously implement this service.

"I am looking forward to this new procedure. Now the technology development is very fast, so that we can't keep up with the rhythm. Green technology can be supported by the majority of users when it goes on the market. Garbage classification, practicing low-carbon and environmentally friendly cities start with me!"

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"Garbage classification is indeed something that each of us should do to protect the environment. This measure of Alibaba Alipay has made a good start and should be supported."

However, some netizens said that Alibaba recycling garbage is so smart, and the waste recycling industry employees shall be unemployed.

What do you think about this new business of Alipay? Talk about your point of view.
 
HOW ALIBABA IS LEADING THE WAR AGAINST CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK
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With the Coronavirus outbreak, China being the worst-hit country, is still trying to come to grips with the Covid-19 with the help of Chinese tech companies who are at the forefront of this effort. One of such efforts is recently made by the country’s biggest tech company, Alibaba, who claims to have developed an artificial intelligence-based system to detect Coronavirus with 96% accuracy.

According to a news report, this new AI system has been trained on images and data from 5,000 confirmed coronavirus cases. It, therefore, can detect the virus in CT scans of patients’ chests with extreme accuracy against viral pneumonia cases. Qiboshan Hospital in Zhengzhou has been among the first to introduce this AI algorithm to aid clinical diagnosis — one of the badly hit areas with the highest cases of Covid-19. According to Alibaba, the system will also be adopted in more than 100 hospitals in the regions of Hubei, Guangdong, and Anhui.

Alibaba, since the outbreak, has continuously contributed towards combating the virus — Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba, had donated $14 million, earlier this year, in order to fight the disease. The company also donated another $144 million towards providing medical supplies to the worst affected Hubei province of China.

This new AI system, by Alibaba, was developed at the Academy for Discovery, Adventure, Momentum and Outlook (DAMO Academy), which was established by Alibaba in 2017 with an initial commitment of a global research and development initiative.

However, Alibaba isn’t the only one in the country pitching in to fight the virus — healthcare organisation Ping An has developed a similar AI-based system to pinpoint the disease from computed tomography images. Even search giant, Baidu, has also open-sourced its RNA prediction algorithm LinearFold to help researchers reduce the time taken to predict the virus’s RNA secondary structure.

AI-Powered Algorithm To Fight Against The Coronavirus

Earlier, nucleic acid testing was considered as the standard reference for diagnosing the Coronavirus as evidence of pathogenicity. But, since the Chinese National Health Commission has widened the criteria for the diagnosis, CT scan became the top method to ensure patients receiving standard treatment as soon as possible.

Researchers at Damo Academy told the media that the new AI tool is designed to distinguish between infected Coronavirus patients and the ones suffering from ordinary viral pneumonia with up to 96% accuracy by only analysing at a patient’s CT scan — in essence, the two have similar symptoms. Usually a human doctor, by comparison, takes up to 5 to 15 minutes to analyse a CT scan of a suspected patient, which include more than 300 images. However, the new algorithm can complete the detection process within 20 seconds, which in turn will ease up the pressure on hospitals.

According to reports, NLP natural language processing along with CNN convolutional neural networks are used to train the CT image recognition networks, which helps the system to identify the difference between Covid-19 images and ordinary viral pneumonia images. Besides, the system can also directly calculate the areas that are infected, thereby quantifying the severity of the cases to improve the efficiency of clinical diagnosis significantly.

This new diagnosis system is not Alibaba’s first attempt to combat the Coronavirus. Researchers from Damo Academy have also developed an AI-powered public health service tool that provides information related to the SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus. The system can answer most inquiries regarding the pandemic via an app that serves as the Zhejiang

Although Alibaba is popularly known for its online shopping and payment platforms, the cloud division of the company has been making bold strides in genomics research since 2015. The company provides computing power and data analytics to the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), one of the world’s largest genomics organisations.

Newer technologies like AI and machine learning have proved to be pivotal in addressing the coronavirus outbreak, according to WHO. Even other companies are helping scientists to battle the epidemic. In fact, Chinese scientific journal database — Chongqing VIP Information — made their academic papers free as an epidemic prevention effort. Alongside, donations of funds and resources have also poured in from tech giants such as Tencent, Xiaomi, Meituan and many more in response to the outbreak.
 

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