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title: "Alibaba Group: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Alibaba Group Holding Limited, branded as Alibaba, is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet, and technology. Founded on 28 June 1999 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, the company provides consumer-to-consumer (C2C), business-to-consumer (B2C), and business-to-business (B2B) sales services via Chinese and global marketplaces, as well as local consumer, digital media and entertainment, logistics, and cloud computing services."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-alibaba-group
type: Organization
wikidata: Q1359568
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alibaba_Group
website: https://www.alibabagroup.com/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Alibaba Group

> Alibaba Group Holding Limited, branded as Alibaba, is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet, and technology. Founded on 28 June 1999 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, the company provides consumer-to-consumer (C2C), business-to-consumer (B2C), and business-to-business (B2B) sales services via Chinese and global marketplaces, as well as local consumer, digital media and entertainment, logistics, and cloud computing services.

Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-alibaba-group

## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: People's Republic of China
- Founded: 1999-06-28
- Headquarters: Binjiang District
- Status: public
- Website: https://www.alibabagroup.com/
- Employees: 251,462 (as of 2021-03-31)
- Also known as: Alibaba, 1688.com, ALIBABA GROUP, Alibaba Group (Cayman Islands), ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING, Alibaba Group Holding Limited, Alibaba Group Holding Limited (Grand Cayman), Alibaba.com
- Industries: e-commerce

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/AlibabaGroup
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/alibaba-group
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9awv94A7WzWuTUP2frSuDA
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alibabagroupofficial
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alibaba.group

## Key people

- Jack Ma, founder (Chinese businessman)
- Joseph Tsai, founder (businessman)
- Joseph Tsai, chief executive (businessman), since 2023-01-01
- Peng Lei (Chinese businessperson)
- Cheng Wei (Chinese business executive)
- Maggie Wei Wu (Chinese business executive)
- Linda Findley (business executive)
- Wang Jian (Chinese computer scientist currently serving as chief technology officer of Alibaba Group)

## Revenue

- 2013-01-01: CNY 34.5 billion (Wikidata)
- 2014-01-01: CNY 52.5 billion (Wikidata)
- 2015-01-01: CNY 76.2 billion (Wikidata)
- 2016-01-01: CNY 101.1 billion (Wikidata)
- 2017-01-01: CNY 158.3 billion (Wikidata)
- 2018-01-01: CNY 250.3 billion (Wikidata)
- 2019-01-01: CNY 376.8 billion (Wikidata)
- 2020-01-01: CNY 509.7 billion (Wikidata)
- 2021-01-01: CNY 717.3 billion (Wikidata)
- 2022-01-01: USD 126.5 billion (Wikidata)
- 2023-01-01: USD 130.4 billion (Wikidata)
- 2024-01-01: USD 137.3 billion (Wikidata)

## Ownership

Subsidiaries: [AutoNavi Holdings Limited](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-autonavi-holdings-limited.md), [Youku](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-youku.md), [alibaba.com](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-alibaba-com.md), South China Morning Post, Taobao, [AGTech Holdings Limited](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-agtech-holdings-limited.md), [UCWeb](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-ucweb.md), [Lazada Group](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-lazada-group.md)

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Alibaba Group, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-alibaba-group#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1359568, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alibaba_Group
- Filings: SEC EDGAR, https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001577552

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