(Yicai) April 9 -- Alibaba Group Holding has formed a group-level artificial intelligence technology committee led by Chief Executive Officer Eddie Wu, as the Chinese internet giant presses ahead with its AI-driven business transformation.

The new committee will oversee Alibaba’s AI strategy and centrally allocate computing power and talent resources, according to a letter Wu sent to staff yesterday. Chief Technology Officer Wu Zeming will serve as its convener, Zhou Jingren will be its AI chief architect, and another member, Li Feifei, will be responsible for Alibaba’s cloud technology and AI infrastructure.

The Hangzhou-based company kicked off its AI business restructuring last month by launching Alibaba Token Hub, a new business group built around three priorities: creating tokens, delivering tokens, and applying tokens. Its purpose is to centrally strengthen strategic coordination across Alibaba’s AI businesses.

Wu has made AI a top strategic priority. Alibaba is repositioning itself around the technology as a core growth driver and investing across the full stack, from large language models such as Qwen to chips and cloud infrastructure, while restructuring itself to accelerate execution and targeting large-scale commercialization through enterprise-focused applications.

Wu’s letter also stated that Alibaba will elevate the status of Tongyi Laboratory, its large model development division, renaming it Tongyi Large Model Business Unit with Zhou at its head. Meanwhile, Li will succeed Zhou as CTO of Alibaba Cloud, and Wu Zeming will hand the role of CEO at Taobao Flash Buy to Lei Yanqun.

The move further establishes Tongyi’s strategic importance. As a business unit it will take on greater responsibilities in AI commercialization and ecosystem development.

This latest restructuring underscores Alibaba’s push to sharpen its AI strategy and tighten coordination across its businesses. Through the overhaul, the company is aiming to install a more centralized management system at the group level, one with clearer responsibilities and a more coherent strategic direction.

Alibaba is investing heavily in AI, having launched a USD53 billion, five-year push aimed at generating USD100 billion in annual revenue from AI and cloud services within five years.

Its revenue from AI-related products has maintained triple-digit year-on-year growth for 10 consecutive quarters, its earnings report released on March 19 showed.

Editors: Tang Shihua, Futura Costaglione