Alibaba Group is also intensifying efforts to attract AI talent.

　　The company has kicked off its spring recruitment program, offering more than 3,000 internship openings for fresh graduates, with nearly half of these positions centered on AI.

　　More than 80 percent of positions offered by Alibaba Cloud — Alibaba's cloud computing arm — are AI-focused. The AI-related positions from Amap, the mapping and local services business under Alibaba, account for about 65 percent of its total.

　　The recruitment plan targets students graduating between November 2025 and October 2026, with internships spanning multiple business units including research and development, algorithms, technology, security and planning, Alibaba said.

　　“As a technology company committed to exploration and innovation, Alibaba is ramping up efforts to attract and cultivate AI talent,“ said Jiang Fang, chief people officer of Alibaba. “We hope to provide outstanding young professionals with broad development space to jointly embrace the immense opportunities in the AI era.“

　　During the spring recruitment period, Alibaba Cloud, in collaboration with the Tongyi Lab, will continue to advance its global talent recruitment initiative. Notably, fresh graduates will have the opportunity to participate in the cutting-edge R&D of large language models, jointly promoting advancements in artificial general intelligence.

　　“Leading Chinese tech companies have played a vital role in expanding employment and bolstering technological innovation, especially in AI, which will be conducive to enhancing production efficiency and bolstering industrial upgrading, thus driving economic growth,“ said Jiang Han, a senior analyst at market consultancy Pangoal.