Ali has two big expenses every year. One is to use three thousandths of its revenue for charity every year. Needless to say, this amount of money is a promise made by Ali at the beginning, and the money spent is also used for charity.
In addition, there is another amount of money, which is scientific research investment. Alibaba invests a lot in scientific research every year. For example, in the past year, Alibaba’s scientific research investment reached more than 100 billion, which is the most among Internet companies. So where is this money used?
In fact, this money is mainly used in these three places, one is Alibaba Cloud , one is Damo Academy , and the other is Pingtou Ge . These three places should be the main places where Alibaba spends its scientific research investment.
Alibaba Cloud is used by Alibaba to research cloud computing. Today, Alibaba's cloud computing has reached the third level in the world and the first in Asia-Pacific. DAMO Academy is also used to study AI. Many smart things, such as smart couriers Xiaoman Donkey , are now available in many universities. Unmanned express vehicles, Xiaoman Donkey is Alibaba's product, and the urban brain of each city, etc., brings great value to urban governance, and this is also Alibaba's product.
As for Flathead, Alibaba used it to research chips and , such as the Yitian 710 chip, Hanguang chips, etc. These are all things developed by Alibaba. Nowadays, many of them have been run on Android, which means that domestic self-developed chips have made new progress.
From this point of view, it is clear that Ali’s money is mainly used for chip research, AI and cloud computing exploration, and technology is inherently very expensive. Ali has laid out so many fields at once, and it can be said that it has spent a lot of money to develop its own technology.