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Alibaba has released its innovative autonomous search AI agent - WebAgent - on GitHub. This AI agent features end-to-end information retrieval and multi-step reasoning capabilities, enabling it to actively search, analyze, and make decisions in network environments like humans. Its release will greatly enhance researchers' efficiency in acquiring and organizing information.

May 28, 2025 – Another piece of good news in the field of artificial intelligence. Tech giants like OpenAI, Tencent, and SAP have all announced new initiatives to drive innovation and development in their respective businesses. These changes will not only impact user experience but also reshape the industry landscape, creating broader market opportunities. First, OpenAI is considering allowing users to log in to third-party services via ChatGPT accounts. The plan is currently in the evaluation stage as OpenAI investigates developers' interest and requirements.

Against the backdrop of the rapid development of the AI agent market, the Alibaba Cloud Qianlian MCP Plaza has officially launched. Meitu Imaging, Yingmi Qianshan, XiaoIce Digital Humans, and more than 40 high-quality MCP services have made their debut, providing users with capabilities to build AI agents across multiple fields such as image editing, financial analysis, digital humans, etc. With the significant enhancement of large model inference capabilities, intelligent application is experiencing explosive growth. Market research institutions such as Markets and Markets and IDC predict the smart agent market will reach hundreds of billions of US dollars.

Alibaba Group and global enterprise software giant SAP announced today a significant strategic cooperation, integrating SAP's enterprise-level software with Alibaba Cloud infrastructure and AI capabilities to inject strong momentum into innovation and digital transformation of global enterprises. The core highlight of this cooperation is that SAP will explore the integration of Qwen large language model and fully support enterprises in deploying SAP ERP Cloud and private cloud versions on Alibaba Cloud. As a certified cloud service provider of SAP, Alibaba Cloud will provide services for enterprise clients across all industries.

Alibaba officially released QwenLong-L1-32B today, a large language model specially designed for long context reasoning, marking a significant breakthrough in AI's ability to handle long text processing. The model outperforms o3-mini and Qwen3-235B-A22B, performing at a level comparable to Claude-3.7-Sonnet-Thinking. The biggest technical breakthrough of QwenLong-L1-32B is that it is the first in the world to be trained via reinforcement learning.

At the first International General Artificial Intelligence Conference TongAI, Alibaba Mum officially launched its LMA2 advertising large model series - the URM universal recall large model. This new model's debut in the field of generative recommendation (AIGR) marks another significant breakthrough for Alibaba Mum in intelligent advertising technology. The design concept of the URM universal recall large model is to accurately predict consumer shopping needs. Through deep learning and big data analysis, this model can effectively identify users' potential consumption intentions, thereby helping businesses.

On May 20, 2025, Meitu Company announced a strategic cooperation with Alibaba and received a $250 million investment. This cooperation marks that both parties will carry out in-depth cooperation in multiple fields such as e-commerce platforms, AI technology, cloud computing, etc., and jointly promote technological innovation and business development. According to the announcement, Alibaba invests in Meitu Company in the form of convertible bonds, with a total investment amount of $250 million and net proceeds of approximately $249.6 million. The term of this investment is 3 years with an annual interest rate of 1%. Alibaba can convert it within 5 days before the expiration date from the issuance date.

Qianwen Wanxiang announces the open source of VACE, marking a major technological revolution in the video editing field. This open-sourced Wan2.1-VACE-1.3B supports a resolution of 480P, while Wan2.1-VACE-14B supports both 480P and 720P resolutions. The emergence of VACE brings a one-stop video creation experience to users, allowing them to complete various tasks such as text-to-video generation, image reference generation, local editing, and video extension without frequently switching between different models or tools, greatly improving efficiency.

It is understood that in this cooperation, Alibaba is responsible for developing the review engine. Meanwhile, Baidu will deeply integrate its AI technology with Apple's Siri and Visual Intelligence. This means that Baidu will take on two major tasks - chatting and searching - playing a key role in Apple's AI functions.