Alibaba will put a bigger emphasis on three business units within the cloud space — public cloud, hybrid cloud and cloud infrastructure. Weiguang Liu will lead the public cloud division, a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to speak publicly on it told CNBC, while Jin Li will lead the hybrid cloud unit. Daniel Zhang stepped down from the CEO role in September, then quit as the head of the cloud business weeks later. "The cloud intelligence group will resolutely implement a strategy of driving growth with AI and of prioritizing public cloud. "In the future, incremental demand for cloud computing will be driven by demand for AI, and most AI computing will run in the cloud."

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Persons: Alibaba, Weiguang Liu, Jin Li, Eddie Wu, Jiangwei Jiang, Jingren Zhou, Daniel Zhang, Wu Organizations: CNBC Locations: China