Former Salesforce VP Si Luo Joins Alibaba's Zebra Zhixing as CTO

TapTechNews October 11th news, according to Interface News report today, Si Luo, the former executive vice president of the world's largest SaaS company Salesforce, the former vice president of Alibaba Group, the chief scientist of达摩院, and a tenured professor at Purdue University, officially joined Alibaba's automotive technology unicorn company Zebra Zhixing and took up the post of chief technology officer (CTO).

According to internal news of Zebra Zhixing, Si Luo will lead the Zebra Zhixing technology team, including the full-stack self-developed vehicle OS and the intelligent cabin AI based on the Tongyi large model, to accelerate the research and development of cutting-edge technologies of AI large models and realize the strategic upgrade of AIOS.

Si Luo left Alibaba in October 2022 and joined Salesforce as the executive vice president (ExecutiveVicePresident, Engineering) in the engineering direction.

TapTechNews learned from public information that Zebra Zhixing is an automotive technology unicorn under Alibaba, with full-stack self-developed vehicle intelligent OS technology and cabin AI technology. The intelligent cabin products and solutions have cooperative customers including SAIC, FAW, Volkswagen, BMW, Audi, Nissan, etc. There are more than 30 cooperative brands covering more than 150 vehicle models, and a cumulative total of 7 million smart cars have been mass-produced and landed.

At the 2024 Yunqi Conference at the end of last month, Zebra Zhixing jointly released the new intelligent cabin technology brand Yuanshen AI, which forms a systematic AI technology in four aspects including scene perception (EchoAI), organization service (EcoAI), and cognitive evolution (EvoAI) based on natural language communication.