The company plans to launch its first indigenous AI interference chip - AliNPU - in the second half of 2019, Chief Technology Officer Zhang Jianfeng told its annual cloud computing conference in Hangzhou.
The company is now providing an autonomous and contactless last-mile delivery service to customers in California, the United States. It is the first time the company has deployed its robotaxi fleet for the delivery of goods.
The company, for example, reported that advertising revenue climbed 67 percent year-on-year to 4.38 billion yuan (4.11 million) in the first quarter of 2017.
The company has worked with local partners to train nurses and village medical workers, treat people suffering cleft lip and palate and mental illnesses in China. Over 5,500 China employees offered more than 12,000 hours of volunteer services in 2017, according to Song.
The company said its Shenzhen and Huizhou plants in Guangdong province haven't been affected directly by the epidemic and its factory in Wuhan maintained normal operations during the extended Lunar New Year holiday.
The company is building a second headquarters in Northern Virginia with plans to hire at least 25,000 workers over the next decade. Northern Virginia won Amazon’s HQ2 competition, a protracted search that indicated the company was potentially slowing growth in its hometown, where it was also engaged in a heated dispute with the Seattle City Council over a “head tax” on top-grossing businesses that ultimately failed.
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The company's online consumer finance platform,Fenqile, offers personal installment loans, installment purchase loans and other loan products. The company also offers a variety of products on its e-commerce channel, which allows customers to use their credit lines to finance purchases.
The company, founded in 2007, has reported sustained profitability for five consecutive years since 2014, according to national railway operator China State Railway Group Co Ltd, the parent of Beijing-Shanghai High Speed Railway's controlling shareholder China Railway Investment Co Ltd.
The company plans to start distributing the vaccine in the US and UK in September or October. The remaining doses will be delivered by early 2021.
The company would not provide further details, the Times said, citing a news report in the local Fujian Evening News that the ship would be equipped with mining equipment, underwater robots, deck cranes and helicopter pads.