Rumor says Alibaba vice president Zhang Kaifu has left to start a business, focused on world models

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Alibaba vice president Zhang Kaifu has left the company to start a new business focused on building a market-facing world model. He says predicting collective human behavior, especially market behavior, remains one of the hardest AI challenges and is now ready to recruit talent. He previously spent nearly ten years at Alibaba working across e-commerce and AI, including Taobao’s merchant ecosystem and traffic operations. His recent public comments at Tmall Double 11 highlighted AI-driven gains in search relevance, recommendation clicks, and advertising ROI.

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