Established in October 2017, the DAMO Academy is a global research institute founded by Alibaba. Its vision is ‘Reaching the Future through Technology’, and it is positioned as ‘a research institute dedicated to exploring the unknown in technology, driven by the vision of humanity’, focusing on research in basic science, innovative technologies and applied technologies. In recent years, the DAMO Academy has successfully established an innovative R&D system, incubating multiple business units including Tongyi, PingTouGe and Xiaomanlu, and giving rise to renowned technological products such as DAMO AI Vision, Xuan Tie, MindOpt, DAMO266, Baguan and LeYun.