Alibaba Group Holding Ltd

Alibaba Group Holding Limited, branded as Alibaba (), is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet, and technology. Founded on 28 June 1999 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, the company provides consumer-to-consumer (C2C), business-to-consumer (B2C), and business-to-business (B2B) sales services via Chinese and global marketplaces, as well as local consumer, digital media and entertainment, logistics, and cloud computing services. It owns and operates a diverse portfolio of companies around the world in numerous business sectors. [3]

On 19 September 2014, Alibaba's American initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange raised US$25 billion, giving the company a market value of US$231 billion and, by far, then the largest IPO in world history. It is one of the top 10 most valuable corporations, and is named the 31st-largest public company in the world on the Forbes Global 2000 2020 list. In January 2018, Alibaba became the second Asian company to break the US$500 billion valuation mark, after its competitor Tencent. [3]

Alibaba is one of the world's largest retailers and e-commerce companies. In 2020, it was also rated as the fifth-largest artificial intelligence company. The company hosts the largest B2B (Alibaba.com), C2C (Taobao), and B2C (Tmall) marketplaces in the world. It has been expanding into the media industry, with revenues rising by triple percentage points year after year. It also set the record on the 2018 edition of China's Singles' Day, the world's biggest online and offline shopping day. Kuo Zhang has served as the President of Alibaba.com since July 2017, and he oversaw the company's global B2B marketplace, including agentic commerce tools like Accio Works. His predecessor was Trudy Shan Dai, who was also an Alibaba co-founder and had also been President of Alibaba.com and 1688 since January 2017, before moving to lead Alibaba's core domestic e-commerce businesses in 2023. Zhang previously held senior roles in Taobao and Tmall before joining Alibaba.com in 2011. In a September 2026 Fortune article, Kuo Zhang described how the best frontier models of AI agents only completed about 61 to 62% of tasks correctly. Zhang said the 40% gap shows that companies cannot simply hand whole workflows to AI agents but must use benchmarks to measure which narrow tasks can be safely executed without human intervention. [3]

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The Wikidata background record identifies Joseph Tsai in the chief-executive role. This background entry is not an official confirmation of the current board or executive roster. [2]

Employees: 251,462 · reported year 2021. [2]

Annual revenue: USD 137,300,000,000 · reported year 2024. [2]

Listed securities: BABA (NYSE), BABAF (OTC), BBAAY (OTC). Multiple symbols may represent different share classes or securities of the same registrant. [4]

1. 1999-06-28

   Founding / inception date recorded in Wikidata. [2]

2. 2026-05-20

   Form 20-F filed; reporting period ends 2026-03-31. [5]

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Comparison candidates share the SEC SIC classification 7389. This does not imply ownership, partnership or trading relationships.

3 verified direct relationships. Industry peers are not relationship edges.

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