Joe Tsai: After DeepSeek's breakthrough, Alibaba engineers worked nonstop through the Spring Festival to catch up with the AI wave

After DeepSeek launched its low-cost, high-performance artificial intelligence model in January this year, shocking the global tech industry, engineers at Alibaba Group canceled their holidays and continued working through the Spring Festival to catch up. On June 11, at the VivaTech conference in Paris, Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai stated that after the release of DeepSeek’s R1 model, Alibaba realized it was falling behind in the field of artificial intelligence.