A year after Alibaba decided to do "cloud computing", it first set a "small goal": to build a large-scale operating system "Feitian" developed by China.

When Alibaba Cloud was first born in 2009, Jack Ma said at the Alibaba Conference that year: "Alibaba Cloud will be the next decade of Alibaba."

In 2013, it acquired deep learning and neural network startup DNNresearch from the University of Toronto's computer science department. The improvement of Google's image search features greatly benefited from this acquisition.

In 2014, it acquired the London artificial intelligence startup DeepMind for a high price of US$600 million (CB Insights data). It was the AlphaGo project developed by this team that attracted global attention in the human-machine Go competition.

In 2015, the progress made in artificial intelligence and machine learning was truly amazing. Although the current development speed is still within a controllable range, industry insiders believe that the speed of relevant progress is getting faster year by year. Most of the recent results in this field are based on earlier work by other groups in early 2015, while in contrast, most of the references for results in other fields date back decades.

In November 2016, Alibaba Cloud broke the CloudSort world record and reduced the computing cost of sorting 100TB data to 1/3. In November 2016, Alibaba Cloud launched services in Europe, the Middle East, Japan and Australia one after another, achieving global Internet market coverage.

On December 20, 2017, Alibaba Cloud officially launched ET Brain, which integrates urban management, industrial optimization, auxiliary medical care, environmental governance, aviation dispatching and other global capabilities at the Computing Conference Beijing Summit, to comprehensively deploy industrial AI. In January 2017, Alibaba became the official partner of the Olympic Games' "cloud services" and "e-commerce platform services", providing cloud computing and artificial intelligence technology for the Olympic Games.

On November 26, 2018, Alibaba Group announced that Alibaba Cloud would upgrade Alibaba Cloud Intelligence to strengthen investment and construction in technology and intelligent Internet. On September 22, 2018, at the 2018 Hangzhou Yunqi Conference, Alibaba Cloud announced the establishment of a global delivery center. In July 2018, Shandong Zikuang Group and Alibaba Cloud Computing Company signed an agreement to jointly promote cooperation projects in converting old and new driving forces.

On June 18, 2019, Alibaba DingTalk entered the Alibaba Cloud Intelligent Business Group. DingTalk CEO Chen Hang reported to Zhang Jianfeng, Alibaba Group CTO and President of the Alibaba Cloud Intelligent Business Group.

On March 19, 2020, Alibaba Cloud announced that it would make COVID-19 AI diagnostic technology available to hospitals around the world for free during the epidemic. It can complete a CT diagnosis of suspected cases in 20 seconds with an accuracy of over 96%, which can help areas with severe epidemics overseas to significantly Save medical resources.