Jack Ma (Ma Yun)
Founder of Alibaba Group (former CEO)
Founded Alibaba 1999; previously English teacher; Hangzhou Teachers Institute
About Jack
Jack Ma (Ma Yun) founded Alibaba in 1999. Alibaba Cloud now operates the Qwen open-weights model family — one of the strongest open-source contributions to the global AI commons. Stepped back from active leadership in 2019.