Staff reporter

An artificial intelligence expert has joined Alibaba (9988) as group vice president, according to a mainland media report.

Steven Hoi Chu-hong will oversee Alibaba's multimodal AI foundational model focused on individual user applications and agent-related research and solutions, Jiemian reported.

Hoi founded HyperGAI, an applied AI research company, and is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow.