The semiconductor manufacturer and the AI ??area of ??the Chinese firm Alibaba will collaborate on protocols for smart homes, custom IoT chips and intelligent AI hardware. Within the framework of CES 2018, they announced the first intelligent mesh connectivity solution in China, based on the IoT protocol developed by Labs, IoTConnect, and the Bluetooth chip, co-developed by both. It allows smart home devices to automatically operate with Tmall Genie, an intelligent Lab-controlled voice assistant.