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2 Infrastructure Supports Alibaba’s Global E-commerce Ecosystem
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Available in 49 Regions around the World 200+ Data Centers Servers Immersion Cooling Networks FPGA-based Accelerators Power Usage Efficiency (PUE) Approaches 1.0 Speed is Boosted from 100 Gbps to 400 Gbps Self-developed AliFlash V3 The World’s First Immersion Cooling The Only IPv6 Cloud Service Vendor in China Internet Server Cluster
Note: 1. As of August 31, 2018 3 Cluster Scheduling System Enhances Resource Efficiency
Resource Management System
Sigma Online Tasks Fuxi Offline Tasks
(1) (1) 17% % Reduction in IT Cost per 10k Transactions 45 Data Center Clusters Average CPU Utilization Rate of Clusters on the Single’s Day Shopping Festival
Note: 1. As of Aug 2018 4 Self-Developed, Full Stack Technologies and Solutions for Database and Storage Systems Network Shared Nothing Network Shared Storage
(1) Worker Worker Worker Worker (1) Worker Worker Worker Worker Disk Disk Disk Disk Disk 6x MySQL Scale UP 10+ Read and Write Throughputs of PolarDB Scale Out OLTP OLAP Data Sources Analyzed by Data Lake Analytics PolarDB X-DB Data Lake Analytics HTAP AnalyticDB (2) DRDS Multi-model (1) HybridDB 325,000 TSDB 100+ PB Sales Transactions per Second VectorDB Real-time Processing Capability of AnalyticDB TAIR DADI Peak Throughput of X-DB No-SQL PANGU Distributed Memory Lindorm Distributed Storage Services Self-Driving Heterogeneous Hardware Notes: UtilityDMS CTC 1. As of Aug 2018 (GPU/FPGA, RDMA, NVM, OpenSSD) 2. For Singles Day 2017 DTS 5 The World’s Largest E-commerce Knowledge Graph
Other Other Items Items Rice Refrigerator Cooker Kitchen Appliances (1) Above Edges 400 Family of 5 1 trillion Members Liters (1) Large Edges Traversal per Second Capacity Large 10 million (1) Refrigerator Capacity Rice 10 million Vertices Cooker
Family of 5 Major Members Countertop Above More More Appliances Appliances 5 Liters
Note: 1. As of Aug 2018 6 Indoor High-Definition Map Indoor 3D Reconstruction
7 Multilingual Technologies Make Cross-border Trade Easier
Machine Translation Natural Language Processing Reading Comprehension AliTranx AliNLP AliReader (1) 5 Champions In World-class Machine Champion at Global Semantic Surpassed Humans on SQuAD 48 Translation Competitions (WMT) Understanding Competition “SemEval" Reading Comprehension 1 million Language Directions Served Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
Traffic Drive and User Search on Product Consumer Payment Customer Acquisition Website Display Inquiry & Logistics Service
Note: 1. As of August 31, 2018 8 Tmall Genie: No.1 Smart Speaker Market Share in China Platforms Content
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Appliance Categories Apps Registered Devices
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Notes: 1. As of June 30, 2018 2. As of May 20, 2018 9 Distributed Voice Interaction Enhances Smart Home Experience
Voice Control 86mm x 86mm Distributed Deployment
5 meters 360 Far-field Sound Pickup with Dual Microphones Immersion Control Experience
10 4+X Labs Global Innovation Partnership
Machine Intelligence Data Computing Robot Financial Technology X Research
•Speech Intelligence •Computing Technology •Intelligent •Financial Intelligence •Quantum Lab 200+ Collaboration Projects •Vision Intelligence •Data Analytics & Intelligence Transportation •Blockchain •AI Lab •Language Technology •Database & Storage •Smart Logistics •Biometrics •Decision Intelligence •City Brain 10+Countries 50+Universities
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11 8 Cities 300 Researchers
Beijing Shenzhen Hangzhou New York Tel Aviv-Yafo Singapore
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12 Cloud-Edge Intelligent Chipset
New Release Video/Image General Embedded 10x Improvement Processing AI Requirements Requirements Deep-learning Mass Production of Self-developed CPU IP Core Inference Capability DATA CENTER CK902 Support the 3rd Generation RISC-V Instruction System AliNPU V1 AliNPU V2 AliNPU Lite 40x Cloud-Edge Training/Inference IoT Improvement City Brain Industry Brain Smart Security Building Block of IoT Infrastructure Integrated with AliOS AI Inference Chip General Chip Specialized Chip Overall Performance /Power Efficiency Smart Home Autonomous Driving Robotics
13 Quantum Computing: Disruptive Computing Power for the Future
Quantum Processor Quantum Computing System Zhejiang University -Alibaba Joint Center for Quantum Information Technologies TaiZhang High-Precision Superconducting Processor Quantum-Classical Heterogeneous Computing
The First Successful Simulation of Quantum-Enhanced Solutions Quantum Algorithms Chinese Academy of Sciences Benchmarking 81-Qubits Random Quantum Circuit For Logistics, Finance, Materials, Chemistry, etc. For Machine Learning, Optimization, and Physics Simulation -Alibaba Quantum Computing Laboratory
14 TECNOLOGY RESHAPES INDUSTRIES
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