據報道，中國科技巨頭阿里巴巴從其虛擬宇宙部門解雇了數十人

根據當地日報《南華早報》報道，這家總部位於杭州的公司已解僱其元界子公司遠景的員工。

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba (NYSE:BABAF) has reportedly laid off dozens from its metaverse division, joining other global tech titans like Baidu (NASDAQ:BAID) and Meta (NASDAQ:META) who have scaled down their metaverse ambitions.

據報道，中國電子商務巨頭阿里巴巴（NYSE：BABAF）已從其虛擬宇宙部門解雇了數十人，加入百度（納斯達克股票代碼：BAID）和Meta（納斯達克股票代碼：META）等其他全球科技巨頭的行列，這些巨頭都縮小了虛擬宇宙的野心。

The Hangzhou-based company has laid off employees in Yuanjing, its metaverse subsidiary, reports local daily South China Morning Post (SCMP). Citing a source familiar with the matter, the SCMP stated that the move is part of the company’s restructuring to optimize efficiency.

根據當地日報《南華早報》報道，這家總部位於杭州的公司已解僱其元界子公司遠景的員工。 《南華早報》引述知情人士的話稱，此舉是該公司優化效率重組的一部分。

Alibaba established Yuanjing in 2021 to focus on the metaverse, developing software solutions and hardware components for the e-commerce giant and other third parties. According to one local outlet, Alibaba has since then invested “billions of yuan” in the unit, which reportedly employed “a few hundred workers.”

阿里巴巴於2021年成立遠景，專注於虛擬世界，為電子商務巨頭和其他第三方開發軟體解決方案和硬體元件。據當地一家媒體報道，阿里巴巴此後已向該部門投資了“數十億元人民幣”，據報道該部門僱用了“數百名工人”。

One of the unit’s most significant products was a cloud operating system that allowed clients to use the metaverse in video gaming. Later, it expanded to include other industrial applications. However, it has failed to garner the interest Alibaba projected.

該部門最重要的產品之一是雲端作業系統，允許客戶在視訊遊戲中使用元宇宙。後來，它擴展到包括其他工業應用。然而，它未能引起阿里巴巴預期的興趣。

When Alibaba launched Yuanjing, it was locked in a race to dominate the budding metaverse with its local rivals, including Tencent (NASDAQ:TCTZF), Baidu and TikTok owner ByteDance. That year, they all registered dozens of metaverse trademarks; Tencent, in particular, registered nearly 100 metaverse trademarks relating to its messaging, music and game apps.

當阿里巴巴推出遠景時，它與騰訊（納斯達克股票代碼：TCTZF）、百度和 TikTok 所有者字節跳動等本土競爭對手展開了一場爭奪新興虛擬世界主導權的競賽。那一年，他們都註冊了數十個元宇宙商標；尤其是騰訊，註冊了近 100 個與其訊息、音樂和遊戲應用程式相關的元宇宙商標。

The source revealed that despite the layoffs, Yuanjing will continue to operate and develop metaverse tools and applications and focus on providing metaverse-based services.

消息人士透露，儘管裁員，遠景仍將繼續運作和開發元界工具和應用程序，並專注於提供基於元界的服務。

Alibaba joins Baidu in scaling down metaverse ambitions and pivoting the investment to newer tech like artificial intelligence (AI). The search engine giant’s ambitions to dominate the technology led to the hiring of Ma Jie in 2015 as the head of the metaverse and the launch of the XiRang metaverse app where users could interact and engage. However, Jie left the company last year, and since then, a lot of the investment has pivoted to AI.

阿里巴巴與百度一起縮小虛擬宇宙的野心，並將投資轉向人工智慧（AI）等新技術。這家搜尋引擎巨頭雄心勃勃地想要主導這項技術，因此在 2015 年聘請馬傑擔任元界負責人，並推出了 XiRang 元界應用程序，用戶可以在其中進行互動和參與。然而，傑去年離開了公司，此後，許多投資都轉向了人工智慧。

It’s a similar story in the West. Meta, one of the key global giants that popularized the metaverse, laid off employees in Reality Labs last year. The cuts were concentrated on the Facebook Agile Silicon Team, a 600-member unit of the metaverse division focused on creating custom silicon.

西方也有類似的故事。 Meta 是普及虛擬世界的全球主要巨頭之一，去年解雇了 Reality Labs 的員工。裁員主要集中在 Facebook Agile Silicon Team，該團隊是 Metaverse 部門的一個擁有 600 名成員的單位，專注於創建客製化晶片。

Reality Labs has continued to bleed, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg still insisting that it will turn its fortunes around in the future. In Q3, the division posted $4.4 billion in losses. Overall, it has lost $58 billion since 2020.

Reality Labs 仍在繼續流血，執行長馬克祖克柏仍然堅稱該公司將在未來扭轉命運。第三季度，該部門虧損 44 億美元。總體而言，自 2020 年以來，它已經損失了 580 億美元。

Despite falling out of favor, the metaverse could be a $3 trillion market by 2031, said the United States Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).

美國金融業監理局 (FINRA) 表示，儘管虛擬宇宙已經失寵，但到 2031 年，其市場規模仍可能達到 3 兆美元。