Alibaba on YouTube 

Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Hangzhou-origin technology group that the company presents as an AI-plus-cloud and consumption platform rather than a single online marketplace. On alibabagroup.com the firm still writes an industrial sentence: make it easy to do business anywhere, with consumer platforms such as Taobao, Tmall, Idle Fish, Tmall Supermarket, Tmall Global, Freshippo, 1688, AliExpress, Lazada, Trendyol, Daraz, and Alibaba.com, plus Amap, Fliggy, Youku, Damai, Lingxi Games, Quark, and UC. Infrastructure names include Alibaba Cloud, Cainiao, DingTalk, and Tmall Genie. Research units named on the site include Alibaba DAMO Academy, Alibaba Fonts, and starlightai. Qwen is described as a family of large language and multimodal models, with Qwen3.5, Qwen3.7-Max, Wukong, HappyHorse, HappyOyster, the XuanTie C950 RISC-V CPU core, and the Zhenwu M890 AI processor listed as product language. Those claims belong on the website and in filings; they are cited here only as Alibaba’s own yardsticks, not as an independent census of merchants or model users. The group dates its founding to 1999 and to eighteen people led by Jack Ma, a former English teacher from Hangzhou. Stated values put customers first, employees second, and shareholders third, with a 102-year durability line the company repeats itself. Leadership named on official pages includes Joe Tsai as chairman, Eddie Wu as director and chief executive officer, J. Michael Evans as director and president, Maggie Wu as director, Toby Xu as chief financial officer, Jane Jiang as chief people officer, Sara Yu as general counsel, and Fan Jiang as chief executive of the e-commerce business group. Partnership items include Alibaba Cloud work with Olympic Broadcasting Services and the International Olympic Committee for Milano Cortina 2026, and a multi-year UEFA partnership covering specified competitions and UEFA EURO 2028 for named seasons. Official LinkedIn, YouTube, and X carry platform films, AI notes, and results colour. They are not a Taobao help desk, a purchase-order inbox, or a place to share bank details, credentials, one-time passwords, or payment data. Customers are merchants, brands, retailers, consumers, and enterprises that want commerce infrastructure, logistics, cloud, and AI tools Alibaba publishes. ESG and investor-relations pages sit on alibabagroup.com. Commercial, media, and shareholder mail belong on the contact routes the Group publishes there. Qwen, Cainiao, and Alibaba Cloud claims should be read as the company’s own product language. Follow the official pages for the operating technology group, then verify every platform name, model label, and partnership at the source rather than treating a social clip as a specification sheet.