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August 14 news, a few days ago,Ant GroupAnt Group’s own campus in BeijingT SpaceOfficially opened, Ant Group's innovative technology headquarters officially landed in Beijing. Ant Group Chairman and CEO Jing Xiandong said at the opening ceremony of T Space, "Ant will take advantage of Beijing's talent and scientific and technological innovation advantages, increase investment, and open a new chapter for Ant Technology."

According to reports, as early as 2010, Alipay (China) established a Beijing branch, and in 2020, the domestic distributed database OceanBase commercialization company also settled in Beijing. Last year, Ant Group signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Haidian District Government of Beijing and announced the establishment of an innovative technology headquarters in Haidian District. It is understood that the headquarters covers Ant’sAIIt is committed to cutting-edge technological exploration and practice in the field of data elements, and has four major business entities: Ant Technology Research Institute, OceanBase Domestic Database Headquarters, Digital Ant Headquarters, and Ant Digital Technology Northern Headquarters.

T Space is located in the south wing of Zhongguancun. At today's media communication meeting, Ant Group's Chief Technology Officer He Zhengyu introduced that "T stands for both technology 'Technology' and talent 'Talent'. The naming of Ant T Space reflects Ant's technology and talent layout in Beijing. The relocation of Ant Group's Beijing headquarters from CBD to Zhongguancun also reflects Ant Group's determination to move forward in science and technology." He said that in the next ten years, Ant will continue to increase its investment in science and technology, and its science and technology strategy will focus on the two major areas of artificial intelligence and data elements.

Among them, OceanBase is a domestic distributed database that is 100% "self-developed" by Ant Group. Since its official commercialization and independent operation in Beijing in 2020, OceanBase has helped more than 1,000 customers in multiple industries such as finance, government affairs, operators, retail, and the Internet to upgrade their key business systems.

Ant Digits is a representative of Ant Group's technology commercialization and systematic practice. At present, Ant Digits has served more than 10,000 companies. As the headquarters of Ant Digits in northern China, Beijing is also an important base for Ant Digits' cloud services, security technology and other cutting-edge technology research and development.

In addition, Ant Group's Digital Ant Group is also headquartered in Beijing. Digital Ant Group is Ant's business unit that provides intelligent services to enterprises based on AI technology, and is also an AI commercialization company that Ant Group just established this year.

The Ant Technology Research Institute, established in Beijing, is committed to exploring cutting-edge technologies. It has identified two frontier directions: "breaking through the core technologies of data elements" and "exploring new boundaries of artificial intelligence". It will tackle related technologies including editable real-time generative artificial intelligence, embodied intelligence and intelligent robots, data storage, high-performance real-time graph computing technology, and dense computing, to reserve future strength for Ant's technological innovation.

As of the end of June this year, Ant Group has more than 3,000 employees in Beijing, with a technical R&D team of more than 2,000 people, of which technical talents account for nearly 80%, and talents with a master's degree or above account for nearly 60%. At the same time, Ant Group has established two joint laboratories with Tsinghua University, and has carried out project cooperation with 10 universities in Beijing, including Peking University, Tsinghua University, Renmin University of China, and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. (Yicheng)

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