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Eddie Wu
Title: CEO Company: Alibaba Group Industry: Technology
Eddie leads Alibaba Group, contributing towards the industry’ s shift to an AI-driven cloud infrastructure. A co-founding computer scientist of Alibaba in 1999 who previously served as Chief Technology Officer of Alipay and Taobao, Eddie took over as CEO in 2023. He swiftly realigned the tech conglomerate around fullstack AI and cloud integration. The firm’ s 45 % growth in revenue in June
2026 is“ driven by the improving commercialisation” of Alibaba Group’ s“ full-stack AI capabilities”, according to Eddie. Under his direction, Alibaba Cloud’ s open-source Qwen model suite has become a cornerstone of global developer ecosystems, while Eddie scales the underlying compute, chip architecture and enterprise cloud capabilities powering China’ s broader digital economy.
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