Founders & executives
Wang Jian
Founded Alibaba Cloud; built the infrastructure the Qwen models run on.
b. 1962🇨🇳China王坚Founder, Alibaba Cloud
A psychologist by training who pushed Alibaba to write its own cloud operating system, Apsara, when almost everyone inside the company thought it was a mistake.
Known for
Alibaba CloudApsaraCity Brain
3 CareerEvery role we can document, most recent first
- 2009–now17 yrsAlibaba CloudFounder
- 2012–20131 yrAlibaba GroupCTO
- 1999–20089 yrsMicrosoft Research AsiaAssistant Managing Director
0 Books & papersPublished work, oldest first
No books — their work lives in papers, code and talks. The accounts above are the place to follow it.
LineageWho taught whom. Most of this field descends from a handful of laboratories, and the shortest path between two researchers is usually an advisor.
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