🛠️ New AI Agent Marketplace
Alibaba's workplace communication platform DingTalk has unveiled a marketplace with over 200 AI-powered agents, specializing in productivity tools, industry-specific services, and enterprise-facing features. These agents are developed by third-party providers and can handle various tasks for users, enhancing their productivity. The platform's President, Ye Jun, highlighted the potential for AI agents to become key in future applications. DingTalk also upgraded its self-developed AI agent, DingTalk AI Assistant, which can now process information from video and images.
🌐 Growing Reliance on AI Agents
Businesses globally are turning to AI agents to boost productivity. A survey by Accenture found that 96% of C-suite executives see AI agent ecosystems as a significant opportunity. DingTalk, with over 700 million users, is keeping up. In April 2023, it launched DingTalk AI Assistant with Alibaba Cloud's Qwen model. Within a year, over 2.2 million companies, including 1.7 million monthly active enterprises, have used DingTalk's AI capabilities.
🛍️ AI In Hand for SaaS and Developers
The latest development makes DingTalk a valuable platform for SaaS businesses and individual developers. They can create and share AI agents on the platform, which respond to natural language prompts like chatbots but offer more services. These agents perform tasks inside and outside DingTalk, from business analysis to travel planning. The platform also ensures quality by requiring third-party AI agents to apply for approval.
🔎 Multimodal AI Assistant
DingTalk's AI Assistant is now multimodal, capable of processing various formats. It can handle up to 500 pages of text, generate summaries, and comprehend images and videos using Alibaba Cloud's Qwen-VL model. This allows the assistant to generate subtitles, translate images, summarize videos, and search for data based on a graphic prompt. For example, users can upload a photo of Hangzhou's West Lake and receive a historical summary.
How will DingTalk's AI Agent Marketplace impact business?
