Chinanews.com, Hangzhou, November 12 (Liang Mu) On November 11, Alibaba Chief Technology Officer Cheng Li released a set of data: This year's Double 11, the calculation cost of Alibaba's peak promotion has fallen by 50% compared with last year; as of last year; On the 11th, the Xiaomanlu unmanned vehicle delivered more than 1 million express items during the Double 11 period.
The annual traffic peak on Double 11 is the biggest challenge for Double 11 technology. A large number of computing resources need to be added at the same time to ensure stability and smoothness. Through cloud-native and more flexible computing capabilities, Alibaba’s computing cost for the peak promotion of Double 11 this year has dropped compared with last year. 50%.
Cheng Li said that based on the application of 100% cloud native, cloud native technology has continued to advance this year, and online business containers have reached a million scale, greatly optimizing transaction links and improving computing efficiency.
In the past few years, Alibaba has continued to deepen its computing power, benefiting from comprehensive cloud access, technology cloud nativeization, and full-stack self-developed technology innovations from databases to servers to chips, and the efficiency of computing resources has been continuously improved.
This year, all of Alibaba's business runs on the cloud.
Through technological innovation on the cloud, the computing power of the data center has been more rationally configured, such as the use of the self-developed Shenlong cloud server architecture and the self-developed database PolarDB, which greatly improves the efficiency of server resource usage and reduces computing costs.
In addition to cultivating computing power, Ali has also spared no effort in investing in green technology.
On Double 11 this year, green has become the core keyword, and technology plays a key role in it.
In addition to cloud-native technology that promotes a significant reduction in the cost of peak computing power, self-developed optical chips also greatly reduce energy consumption while improving algorithm efficiency. Compared with traditional GPUs, energy consumption per unit of computing power is reduced by 58%.
In addition to green computing power, the large-scale model M6, which is the world’s largest parameter self-developed by Bodhidharma Institute, also supports Double 11 for the first time. It helps AI-related businesses increase computing power and reduce carbon emissions through low-carbon and high computing power algorithm models. It has been used in more than 40 business scenarios.
It is worth mentioning that the M6 achieves the industry's ultimate low-carbon efficiency. Compared with the same parameter scale, the energy consumption is only 1%.
This year, the use of clean energy such as wind power and photovoltaics in Alibaba's data center continues to increase, while continuing to promote liquid cooling technology.
Since 2015, Alibaba Cloud Data Center has begun to explore the practice of liquid cooling technology. By immersing the server in a special insulating cooling liquid to realize heat dissipation, liquid cooling technology can reduce the energy consumption of the server by 70%.
The Hangzhou Renhe Data Center has deployed the world's largest liquid-cooled cluster, which has reduced the PUE (Energy Use Efficiency) to 1.09.
In the logistics link, Cainiao's green logistics technologies such as smart box cutting, green box return, and carbon billing have also been promoted and applied on a large scale.
By optimizing the carton model and recommending a reasonable packing plan, the intelligent box cutting algorithm supports Cainiao's industry-wide recommendation of packaging materials in warehouses, reducing the use of packaging materials by an average of 15%. Only in the Cainiao warehouse, 530 million parcels can be "slimted" a year; Cainiao also launched a "personal carbon reduction bill" for carbon emission estimation and information-based investigations in all links of green logistics, and initiated express packaging recycling at 60,000 Cainiao stations, and 10,000 stations tried out old packaging recycling to open up the express packaging cycle. Use closed loop.
"Deeply plowing self-developed technology and green technology, in the final analysis, is to be a good technology that benefits users." Cheng Li said that a good technology always focuses on improving user experience, reducing costs and increasing efficiency for businesses, and promoting the reform and development of related industries.
On Double 11 this year, Taobao's immersive 3D live broadcast room created the first film and television-level merchant self-broadcasting program, providing consumers with an immersive buying experience.
This technology breaks through key technologies such as cloud rendering, AI, complex light and shadow simulation, and cloud 3D asset library in the previous film and television-level XR live shooting. It supports the anchor to virtualize thousands of square meters of live venues and nearly a thousand with only ordinary green screens. The live broadcast effect of stage lighting and special camera equipment has become the first business self-broadcast film and television shooting solution with advantages of low cost, reusability, low carbon and environmental protection.
In the field of cross-border e-commerce, multilingual translation technology has improved the quality of source language product information and user experience with significant transcreation, integration, rewriting and translation capabilities. Currently, it has supported AliExpress and ICBU in more than ten countries and tens of millions of cross-border services. The internationalization of the information of the goods in the world.
Image translation technology automatically locates and recognizes the translation area, and automatically converts Chinese pictures into English pictures, realizing the internationalization of Lazada's millions of product picture information and helping businesses improve conversion efficiency.
In addition to consumer experience, technology has become an engine that promotes industrial innovation and upgrading from product design, manufacturing to the last mile of logistics and distribution.
Taking the fashion industry as an example, how to efficiently and accurately mass-produce innovative design styles that conform to market trends and shorten the cultivation cycle of new models has always been a pain point in the market.
The intelligent trend design solution supported by Dharma Academy's AI image generation technology has become a boost for the double 11 fast-reverse fashion design. Based on this solution, a number of shoe and boot merchants have put thousands of AI design products on the shelves.
The large model M6 has also been employed in some factories. Its high-definition image generation capability can increase the efficiency of designers by 5 times. The development cycle of new clothing has been shortened from the past 1-3 months to the fastest 2 weeks.
At present, the first batch of AI-designed clothing has been launched on Taobao one after another.
In the last mile of logistics distribution, this year's Double 11 Xiaoman donkey unmanned vehicle has entered more than 200 colleges and communities across the country. Through the "on-demand appointment, scheduled door-to-door, and delivery to the building" service, users can save time and effort. Collect the package.
As of the 11th, Xiaomanlu has delivered more than 1 million packages.
In the past year, Xiaomanlu completed the ramp of "from 0 to 1" for mass production, which verified the possibility of technology and business, and became a cute and convenient artificial intelligence assistant in the eyes of many people.
"Double 11 is an important technical training ground. It not only refines high technology such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence, but also drives us to continuously create good technology. Whether it is through green technology innovation to participate in social carbon reduction actions, or through human-computer interaction Technology and self-driving technology enhance user experience, and we are all moving in the direction of good technology. Double 11 this year will become a new starting point for Alihao Technology." Cheng Li said.
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