Alibaba's IOC Partnership: Digital Transformation and AI-Powered Search

Alibaba Group partners with IOC, aiming to transform Olympic Games digitally and support athletes' success through technology on Alibaba.com.

### Alibaba's Partnership with the IOC and AI-Enhanced E-commerce Search
* 🏅  Alibaba has been a global partner with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) since 2017, and is now working on the "**New Athlete**" program.
* 🔍  The "New Athlete" program aims to support athletes in their post-competition careers by leveraging **Alibaba's expertise in e-commerce and digital transformation**.
* 🏋️‍♂️  Alibaba believes that successful entrepreneurs and athletes share common qualities such as **passion, resilience, self-discipline, and clear goal-setting**.
* 🛒  Alibaba has launched an AI-enhanced e-commerce search feature on Alibaba.com, which aims to **revolutionize the B2B e-commerce experience**.
* 🤖  The new search feature is described as a "**proactive**" search engine that uses AI to help users **discover more original products** and **filter product selections**.
* 🚚  Alibaba plans to integrate this AI search technology with its digital supply chain solutions to help entrepreneurs **bring their ideas to life**.
* 💬  Alibaba's goal is to combine human expertise with technology to **empower entrepreneurs and athletes to achieve their dreams**.

Why make this arrangement with the IOC?
Actually, Alibaba Group is working partner with IOC as a global partner
since 2017 to 7 years ago. And the first are we are committing to
transform Olympic Games into digital are real and now we are working with IOC for
the new athlete, the three six file program.
Since we meet with some many of the athletes, we we can feel that the
successful entry for nurse and athlete actually shares the same the same of the
common characteristics, all the common qualities from passion to resilience.
Self-discipline, push the boundary and has a goal set a very, very clear goal.
And these are the kind of victories for the successful entrepreneur.
And we see a lot of entry partners on Alibaba.com.
Hello? Yeah, Mr.
John, I went to Jimmy. We haven't much time, and I wanted to
ask you about the other initiative, which is an AI enhanced e-commerce
search. So Alibaba.com is a B2B platform
merchants selling to other businesses.

Why is an AI powered or enhanced search important? So today we launched the new product, which I think is the bigger the Alibaba, the Communist yourself. So previously the surface is kind of the passive mode. You key in the keywords and then come up with the links with that kind of like pages. And now we're using a technology. We can empower this search engine to be a proactive one. So the expertise of the human and the technology can work together. Helping them to gender is the idea. There's more original can the products and help them to filter the selection of products and suppliers. And in the end, we can use our solution technology, our digital supply chains combined with the search engine together for fulfilling our dream so the athletes can use their kind of expertise in the ideas, in their innovations, and we can use the technology to help to help them to transform their ideas into reality.

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Alibaba's Partnership with the IOC and the Athlete Support Program

Alibaba Group has been a global partner with the IOC since 2017, working to transform the Olympic Games into a digital experience.

They are now collaborating with the IOC on the "Athlete365 Business Acceleration" program.

The program aims to support athletes in their transition to entrepreneurship by highlighting the common qualities between successful athletes and entrepreneurs, such as passion, resilience, self-discipline, and goal-setting.

AI-powered search enhances the user experience by being proactive and collaborative.

It allows for more original product discovery and supplier selection.

Additionally, it helps to bring the expertise and ideas of users to life through technology and digital supply chains.