Alibaba's Internal ML Development for Taobao/Tmall

Alibaba Group begins aggressive internal development of machine learning systems to handle the massive data from its e-commerce platforms, Taobao and Tmall, for tasks like recommendations, search, and anti-fraud.

Significance

This internal development laid the foundational technology and expertise that would later be productized as Alibaba Cloud PAI. It demonstrated the real-world scalability and impact of ML at 'Alibaba-scale'.