Recently, Oct., 10th, the night before “The Computing Conference” (global Cloud summit organized by Alibaba), which is on top-search list, Jack Ma invited 13 international elite academicians and scientists to gather in Alibaba headquarter to attend this great event. The most important is that high-end office furniture brand, MATSU was also respectfully awaiting global authorities from all walks of life.

Among all the guests, we had professor Yao Qizhi, the only Chinese winner of Turing Award; professor Pan Jianwei, Chinese greatest contributor in quantum mechanics field; professor Zhou Yizhen, a professor in Columbia University who defined “Computational Thinking”; and professor Tangxiao, a global expert in face recognition technology.

It’s a deal that MATSU won’t miss any big event in the world. Now, Jack Ma was sitting on MATSU’s Shanshui sofa while he was chatting freely with the invited “half of Scientific Community”.

Then, on 11th, The Computing Conference, Ali announced that Alibaba DAMO Academy had been established and it would invest RMB 100 billion in the future 3 years to integrate research, education and production. In its initial stage, DAMO planned to introduce 100 elite scientists and researchers. Research direction: quantum computing, machine learning, fundamental algorithms, network security, visual computing, natural language processing, Human-computer Nature Interaction, chip technology, sensor technology, embedded system and other fields including AI. Can Ali make achievements in elite technologies?

According to Jack Ma’s planning, Alibaba is going to create the 5th global economy in the next 20 years, which will serve a total of 2 billion consumers worldwide, create 100 million job opportunities and enable 10 million enterprises to be profitable. Jack Ma said: “In the old days, our business took the lead and our technologies just followed. It’s a mode called ‘arsenal’. But no matter how perfect a grenade is, people just don’t have missile. Alibaba have to consider the mechanism to make missile. We need to establish new technology R&D system and focus on core field research, so as to be able to solve problems that will occur in 10 and 20 years.”

Alibaba & MATSU, close partnership calendar

2009 was the 10th year of Ali’s history, when its headquarter was moved to Binjiang, Hangzhou and it chose MATSU, a high-end office furniture brand to design inspiring space.

2014, Ali initiated a bid inviting for its office systematic furniture. It was a task involving company qualification, factory processing, service network investigation, product designing, quality and environmental protection performance. Finally, Alibaba decided to cooperate with MATSU for a strategic partnership and signed framework agreement on office furniture service.

Today, “Taobao”, a business famous for its cost-effectiveness, is no longer the most shining part of Alibaba. Moreover, now we have “Alipay” that allows us to take 0 cash with us, “Freshhema”, a new retail mode, and “Glamours Sales”, focusing on luxury goods. MATSU has almost covered all aspects of Alibaba.