Jia Yangqing, vice president of technology of Alibaba, has left his job, and it is reported that he will join the large model industry.

CTOnews.com March 21 news, today Alibaba Technical Vice President Jia Yangqing posted a message saying goodbye to Alibaba in moments, saying that he would move on to the next challenge of his career.

Jia Yangqing said that he had the honor to lead the Computing platform Division to build the platforms of big data and AI to create value for customers on the cloud, and the team has announced their graduation.

It is reported that Jia Yangqing will start a business, the company positioning to provide large model infrastructure, has locked in the first round of financing. It plans to start a business in the direction of AI infrastructure providers, focusing on AI applications, including large models. The company's goal is to improve the production efficiency of artificial intelligence, including developer efficiency and system efficiency. Help enterprises and developers deploy artificial intelligence efficiently through end-to-end solutions.

According to CTOnews.com, Jia Yangqing, a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang, majored in automation at Tsinghua University as an undergraduate and graduate student, and then went to study for a PhD in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. During his PhD, he founded and opened up the now familiar deep learning framework Caffe, which was adopted by Microsoft, Yahoo, Nvidia, Adobe and other companies.

On March 18, 2019, Alibaba Dama announced through its Zhihu account that Jia Yangqing, a former Facebook artificial intelligence scientist, had officially joined Alibaba as vice president of technology to lead the research and development of big data's computing platform.