Cainiao has announced the opening of its global warehouse network, spanning over 200 countries and regions, to AI and embodied intelligence companies as a real-world logistics training cluster. The company has identified dozens of categories and hundreds of productivity-enhancing scenarios as proofs of concept, aiming to use the long continuous operation and parcel diversity of real warehouses to compensate for the lack of generalization in simulation-based pre-training.
According to Cainiao International President Xiong Wei, the generalization capability gained from 1,000 to 2,000 hours of continuous operation in real warehouses can be over 1,000 times that of laboratory environments. The open scenarios cover in-warehouse operations, mobile robots, and vertical industry tasks. Simultaneously, Cainiao launched a three-day tech going-global service for AI computing and embodied intelligence companies, covering cross-border transportation, overseas deployment, spare parts supply, and local operations, forming a closed loop from training to delivery.
This move transforms the logistics network into data and training infrastructure for embodied intelligence, potentially accelerating the transition of robots from labs to large-scale commercial use. For embodied AI companies, access to real-world scenarios and going-global support lowers the barrier to deployment; for Cainiao, it opens a new growth engine in tech going-global, where revenue has doubled and profitability exceeds that of e-commerce going-global.