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RESEARCH, ANALYSIS & TRENDS

Alibaba’s Top10 Technology Trends

in 2022

Alibaba DAMO Academy (DAMO), the global Considering this, Alibaba expects to see a surge of ap-
research initiative by Alibaba Group, presented plications running on top of the new computing system
its forecast of the leading trends the company in the next two years, as well as the following tech
believes will shape the tech industry in 2022. trends:

1. Cloud-Network-Device Convergence: The rapid
Founded in October of 2017, Alibaba DAMO Academy
explores the unknown through scientific and technologi- development of new network technologies will fuel
cal research and innovation to serve humanity. By ana- the evolution of cloud computing towards a new
lyzing millions of public papers and patent filings over computing system of cloud-network-device con-
the past three years, and conducting interviews with vergence. In the next three years, Alibaba expects
around one hundred scientists, DAMO came up with its to see AI broadly applied in the research process
Top 10 technology trends for the next two to five years of applied science, the widespread use of silicon
expected to make impacts across sectors in the econo- photonic chips in large-scale data centers, AI pav-
my and the society at large. ing the way for integration of renewable energy
sources into the power grid, people-centric preci-
"Over the past century, the evolution of digital technolo- sion medicine becoming a major trend, ground-
gies has accelerated technological progress and indus- breaking improvements in the performance and
trial development. The boundary of technologies is ex- interpretability of privacy-preserving computation,
tended from the physical world to mixed reality, while as well as a new generation of XR glasses.
more and more cutting-edge technologies find their way
to industrial applications," said Jeff Zhang, Head of 2. AI for Science: AI will be broadly applied in the
Alibaba DAMO Academy. research process of applied science and be used
as a production tool in some basic sciences.

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