Alibaba's Hu Xiaoming: All cars without intelligent Internet of Things will become antiques. AliOS is accelerating the popularization of automotive systems

At the AliOS Summit of the Yunqi Conference, Alibaba Group Senior Vice President and Alibaba Cloud President Hu Xiaoming made his first public appearance as AliOS President. This brand was officially launched by Alibaba in September. After integrating YunOS, Alibaba decided to use it to accelerate the layout of the popularization of intelligent connected car systems.

At the beginning of the summit, Hu Xiaoming announced that AliOS would be open source and called on industry partners to jointly build an "operating system for everyone". He said that AliOS would become everyone's OS, and Alibaba would focus on the bottom-level system development and build a good ecological environment to create a chemical reaction with all walks of life.

The first step that AliOS needs to take is to popularize the intelligent connected car system.

Last year, YunOS, which had not yet been integrated, started cooperation with SAIC. According to reports, in the past year, SAIC's self-owned brand new cars have been equipped with the AliOS operating system, and nearly ten new cars have been launched. More than 250,000 intelligent connected cars are on the road.

Hu Xiaoming said confidently, "Whether it is Tesla or driverless cars, I believe that our smart cars with SAIC will definitely be the most advanced in the world. Internet companies and traditional car manufacturers are together. This is Alibaba's choice. We have established Zebra together. 250,000 companies are connected together, and a large amount of data is generated every day to optimize the driver's experience."

With the advent of the 5G era, the intelligentization and Internetization of automobiles have become the mainstream trend of the future. According to the forecast of Accenture and automotive industry consulting company SBD, by 2020, the global sales of new cars equipped with Internet technology will reach 212 million units, and the penetration rate will be close to 60%. Traditional cars without Internet of Vehicles functions will completely withdraw from the market before 2050.

Hu Xiaoming said, "After the emergence of intelligence and the Internet of Things, if a car is not intelligent, I think it will become an antique in the next three to five years."

Because of this, AliOS has started to accelerate the popularization of intelligent connected car systems. After SAIC, AliOS has welcomed its second important partner, Dongfeng Peugeot Citroen Automobile Co., Ltd. This cooperation with Dongfeng Peugeot Citroen is a further implementation of AliOS's IoT strategy and the best proof that AliOS has been recognized by the market and the industry. In the future, AliOS will continue to deepen its presence in the field of automotive operating systems, and work with Zebra Networks and more partners in the entire automotive industry chain to jointly promote the intelligent transformation of the automotive industry. Cars will be the beginning of AliOS driving the intelligence of all things, and Alibaba will also define it as an IoT operating system different from the PC and mobile era.

It was revealed that Dongfeng Peugeot Citroen Automobile Co., Ltd.'s first connected car will be produced by Dongfeng Citroen and is expected to be launched on the market in 2018.

In Hu Xiaoming's opinion, compared with "Internet car", "intelligent network car" can more accurately define the car equipped with AliOS. He said, "The essence of the Internet of Things must first be an intelligent network. The core is not the object but the connection, and how to achieve intelligence after the connection. The operating system is the key to achieving intelligence. It cannot be like Android Auto and Carplay, which just project the content of the mobile phone onto the car screen and copy the inertial thinking of the mobile phone OS to the car OS. The car must have its own operating system. Only by giving the car both networking and computing capabilities can the car be truly intelligent and better meet the 5G era."

Finally, AliOS has a broader layout in the future. Mobile phones, cars, and PADs will all become its key targets, and what AliOS needs to do is to connect these devices and generate value through cloud computing. In the future, AliOS hopes to connect voice, vision, computing, and perception, and integrate edge computing into the Internet of Things system to become an overall solution in the Internet of Things era, making the Internet of Things intelligent and becoming the Internet of Intelligence.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.