据报道，中国科技巨头阿里巴巴从其虚拟宇宙部门解雇了数十人

据当地日报《南华早报》报道，这家总部位于杭州的公司已解雇其元界子公司远景的员工。

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.

据报道，中国电子商务巨头阿里巴巴（纽约证券交易所股票代码：BABAF）已从其虚拟宇宙部门解雇了数十人，加入百度（纳斯达克股票代码：BAID）和Meta（纳斯达克股票代码：META）等其他全球科技巨头的行列，这些巨头都缩小了虚拟宇宙的野心。

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.

据当地日报《南华早报》报道，这家总部位于杭州的公司已解雇其元界子公司远景的员工。 《南华早报》援引知情人士的话称，此举是该公司优化效率重组的一部分。

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.”

阿里巴巴于2021年成立远景，专注于虚拟世界，为电子商务巨头和其他第三方开发软件解决方案和硬件组件。据当地一家媒体报道，阿里巴巴此后已向该部门投资了“数十亿元人民币”，据报道该部门雇用了“数百名工人”。

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.

该部门最重要的产品之一是云操作系统，允许客户在视频游戏中使用元宇宙。后来，它扩展到包括其他工业应用。然而，它未能引起阿里巴巴预期的兴趣。

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.

当阿里巴巴推出远景时，它与腾讯（纳斯达克股票代码：TCTZF）、百度和 TikTok 所有者字节跳动等本土竞争对手展开了一场争夺新兴虚拟世界主导权的竞赛。那一年，他们都注册了几十个元宇宙商标；尤其是腾讯，注册了近 100 个与其消息、音乐和游戏应用相关的元宇宙商标。

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，尽管裁员，远景仍将继续运营和开发元界工具和应用程序，并专注于提供基于元界的服务。

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.

阿里巴巴与百度一起缩小虚拟宇宙的野心，并将投资转向人工智能（AI）等新技术。这家搜索引擎巨头雄心勃勃地想要主导这项技术，因此在 2015 年聘请马杰担任元界负责人，并推出了 XiRang 元界应用程序，用户可以在其中进行互动和参与。然而，杰去年离开了公司，此后，很多投资都转向了人工智能。

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.

西方也有类似的故事。 Meta 是普及虚拟世界的全球主要巨头之一，去年解雇了 Reality Labs 的员工。裁员主要集中在 Facebook Agile Silicon Team，该团队是 Metaverse 部门的一个拥有 600 名成员的单位，专注于创建定制芯片。

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 仍在继续流血，首席执行官马克·扎克伯格仍然坚称该公司将在未来扭转命运。第三季度，该部门亏损 44 亿美元。总体而言，自 2020 年以来，它已经损失了 580 亿美元。

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

美国金融业监管局 (FINRA) 表示，尽管虚拟宇宙已经失宠，但到 2031 年，其市场规模仍可能达到 3 万亿美元。