Alibaba reshuffles AI units into a new ‘Token Hub’ group, led by CEO Eddie Wu
Intended to increase AI coordination, the group will sit alongside Alibaba Cloud and the company’s e-commerce divisions
The company said on Monday it had established the Alibaba Token Hub (ATH) Business Group, which brings all its core AI teams and products together under one umbrella.
This includes Tongyi Laboratory – the developer of Alibaba’s Qwen series of foundation models – the company’s model-as-a-service business, the Qwen business unit focused on personal AI assistants, a new unit called Wukong responsible for building an AI-embedded enterprise workflow around the Dingtalk workplace suite, and a separate AI Innovation business unit dedicated to speedy exploration of new AI applications and business models.
ATH is built around the concept of the token: the fundamental unit of computation and output generated by AI large language models when processing and producing text, images or code.
“ATH is built around a single organising mission: create tokens, deliver tokens and apply tokens,” Wu said in an internal letter announcing the establishment.
The Hangzhou-headquartered tech giant said the new structure aimed to drive strategic coordination across its AI businesses. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.
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