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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens suffering march, South China Wu Yanzu, Mr. Aviation, Hello _ rabbit clue delivery! CTOnews.com May 15 news, according to the Shanghai Securities News, a person close to both Aridamo and Cainiao revealed that Dharma's autopilot team was all merged into Cainiao Group, and Dharma itself no longer retained its business and team. This means that Ali autopilot has shifted from the cutting-edge scientific and technological exploration of the laboratory to the actual combat of the scene business.

People related to Ali confirmed the news and explained that it was "due to business needs". This also means that self-driving will no longer be a cutting-edge project at Alida Moore House, but a technical team subordinate to Cainiao Group, which means that the entire self-driving business will be led by Cainiao Group.

At present, the rookie CTO is Li Qiang (CTOnews.com Note: nickname "Zaikuan"), a backbone who has grown up from Alibaba e-commerce to logistics, not a professional self-driving expert.

According to public information, the Institute of Exploration, Adventure, motivation and Vision (Academy for Discovery, Adventure, Momentum and Outlook) referred to as DAMO Academy, also known as Alibaba Global Research Institute, is a privately funded basic scientific research institution of Alibaba Group.

Ali Damo has seven laboratories around the world, located in Hangzhou and Beijing, China, San Mateo (San Francisco Bay area) and Bellevue (Seattle metropolitan area), Moscow, Russia, Tel Aviv and Singapore.

Among them, Autonomous driving lab of Dama Academy is committed to studying the core technologies of autopilot, such as machine learning, integrated design of software and hardware, perception / decision planning / positioning, to realize its production, scale and commercialization, and to promote industrial change with technological development. bearing the mission of using autopilot technology to empower logistics, transportation, safety, municipal and other important fields.

On the afternoon of March 29 this year, Zhang Yong, chairman of the board of directors and CEO of Alibaba Group, issued a full letter announcing the launch of organizational change. Specifically, "1" refers to Alibaba Group, "6" refers to Aliyun Intelligence, Taobao Tmall Business, Local Life, Cainiao, International Digital Commerce, and Big Entertainment six major business groups, and "N" refers to other business companies under Ali. Alibaba started this round of organizational change in order to adapt to the development of diversification and release greater value.

It is reported that the unmanned logistics vehicle studied by the self-driving business line of Ali Damo originated from the rookie. At the end of 2015, Cainiao set up Cainiao ET Lab, an important task of which is to develop unmanned mobile cars to explore the replacement of technology to labor for Ali's e-commerce business, led by Chen Junbo. In 2018, Ali's logistics unmanned vehicle project was actually promoted by two teams at the same time. To avoid wasting resources, Ali finally spun off Chen Junbo's team from the rookie system within a few months and fully incorporated it into the autopilot team led by Wang Gang, chief scientist of Ali artificial Intelligence Lab, forming a new team of about 300 people.

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