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Having honed its AI chops in e-commerce, Alibaba is deploying them to help doctors more quickly against pancreatic cancer. Its Damo Panda AI—the result of a collaboration with over 10 top-tier medical institutions globally—screens body scans and can ID potentially cancerous lesions that are too small for doctors to see.&nbsp;

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When Shanghai cast its 25 million people into lockdown over COVID in April, residents had little time to stock up on essentials. But more notice wouldn’t have prepared them for what lay ahead: restrictions that trapped them in their homes for two months straight. The city government wasn’t ready for a lockdown of such magnitude either, and it struggled to get food and basic goods to residents. In the end, officials turned to China’s delivery giants—Alibaba, JD.com, and Meituan—to ferry items to a city in need. Alibaba’s food delivery platform Ele.me established special services for the elderly, the disabled, and families with young children. JD.com relocated 5,000 workers to Shanghai from other cities to meet demand that peaked at 1.5 million orders fulfilled per day. Meituan introduced a community buying feature that let neighbors order in bulk, ultimately delivering over 70 million items during the lockdown. For weeks the companies’ workers, zipping around on motorbikes, were among the only people on Shanghai’s vacant streets.

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Alibaba retained its majority share of China’s massive e-commerce market throughout the worst of the pandemic, and the behemoth still has room to grow. Live-streaming—in which brand representatives broadcast to viewers who can purchase items featured in the video—was key to its pandemic strategy. In February it removed service fees for new merchants on its live-streaming platform Taobao Live, and saw the number of new sellers spike 719% compared with the previous month. In April, Alibaba announced it will invest $28 billion in cloud-computing infrastructure over the next three years, a clear signal of its focus on international expansion.

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As the pandemic took hold, China’s e-commerce titan showed how flexible its global infrastructure could be in a crisis. Early on, Alibaba turned its Electronic World Trade Platform—an entity designed for public-private cooperation—into a hub for sourcing personal protective equipment in Asia, Africa, and Europe. Its Alibaba.com B2B platform has helped distribute more than 26 million pieces of PPE to health care providers. Researchers, meanwhile, have relied on its cloud-computing resources to collaborate on COVID-19 vaccine development. 
 
 
Outside the medical realm, Alibaba extended lifelines to the small sellers who represent much of its customer base. Its Taobao Live e-commerce platform helped farmers reach new customers after their supply lines were broken. And Alibaba helped provide some $20 billion in low-interest loans and cash advances to cushion small-business owners in the downturn—an act that showed the prowess of its soon-to-be independent financial unit, Ant Group.

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Founded in 1999, Alibaba Group Holding provides technology infrastructure and marketing reach to help merchants, brands, retailers, and other businesses engage with users and customers. The company operates the digital retail platform Taobao and the online wholesale marketplace Alibaba.com, among others. It also provides storage, network, security, database, and IoT services, as well as hardware, software license and installation, and application development and maintenance services. The company is based in Hangzhou.

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