Official Announcement! Danone Asia Pacific and Alibaba Cloud Reach AI Strategic Partnership

Recently, Danone Asia Pacific has reached a strategic cooperation with Alibaba Cloud. The two parties will collaborate deeply in multiple areas around the vision of “AI + Health,” including full-stack AI, big data, and public cloud cooperation in the Asia Pacific region, to jointly create a smart digital platform and agile organization for the AI era.

Danone’s Global CIO Erwin Logt and Alibaba Cloud’s Senior Vice President and President of the Public Cloud Business Unit, Liu Weiguang, witnessed the signing. Danone Asia Pacific’s CIO Shivani Saini and Alibaba Cloud’s Vice President of the Public Cloud Business Unit and General Manager of the Eastern Region, Xie Hang, represented both parties in signing the agreement, with Danone China’s Vice President of Information Technology & Data for North Asia and Oceania, Liu Bing, also attending the signing ceremony.

As a well-known multinational food and beverage company, Danone operates in three key areas focused on health, rapid development, and trend leadership: specialized nutrition, essential dairy products and plant-based products, and bottled water and beverages. Its well-known brands include Aptamil, Nutrilon, Activia, and Evian.

In the past, Danone China successfully built an efficient, secure, and compliant enterprise-level cloud platform based on Alibaba Cloud’s full-stack public cloud technology, which not only strongly supported agile innovation in enterprise application services but also greatly enhanced the digital experience for Chinese consumers.

Facing the AI era, Alibaba Cloud will fully support Danone in promoting its successful digitalization experience in China to other Asia Pacific regions and will assist Danone in establishing an industry benchmark “Landing Zone” corporate governance model and full-stack AI best practices.

Building AI Agents Based on Qianwen Large Model

In the field of AI Agents, both parties will combine Alibaba’s ecological resources to jointly build scenario-based AI agents in key business areas such as marketing, e-commerce, channel sales, customer service, and supply chain, based on the Qianwen large model, enhancing Danone’s operational efficiency and consumer experience.

Accelerating Technology Transfer Based on Model and Computing Power Services

At the same time, both parties will leverage Alibaba Cloud’s globally leading model and computing power services to support Danone in more efficiently researching, developing, and innovating, and accelerating the transformation of health technology achievements.

Upgrading to a New Generation Data Lake to Accelerate Business Transformation

Additionally, both parties will upgrade to a new generation data lake based on Alibaba Cloud’s advanced data products and technologies, building “Talk-to-Data” capabilities, significantly improving enterprise-level data insight efficiency and decision-making intelligence, and accelerating business transformation.

This strategic signing marks a further step towards business intelligence in the cooperation between Alibaba Cloud and Danone. Danone will continue to leverage advanced digital technologies to provide healthier and higher-quality product and service experiences for global consumers.