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Alibaba Appoints Zhou Jingren as New Cloud Tech Officer

12/11/2025

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Alibaba Group Holding appointed Zhou Jingren as the new technology officer for its cloud unit.
Zhou also leads Alibaba's Tongyi artificial intelligence lab and develops Qwen AI models.
He will join the group responsible for guiding Alibaba's cloud business.
The Alibaba Partnership now has 18 members, including co-founders Jack Ma and Joe Tsai.
He has over a decade of experience at Alibaba and previously worked at Microsoft for 11 years.

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Alibaba Group Holding appointed Zhou Jingren as the new technology officer for its cloud unit.
Zhou also leads Alibaba's Tongyi artificial intelligence lab and develops Qwen AI models.
He will join the group responsible for guiding Alibaba's cloud business.
The Alibaba Partnership now has 18 members, including co-founders Jack Ma and Joe Tsai.
He has over a decade of experience at Alibaba and previously worked at Microsoft for 11 years.