Alibaba’s Dingtalk has upgraded its AI and launched a marketplace of 200 AI-powered agents.
Takeaway Points
- Alibaba’s Dingtalk has upgraded its AI and launched a marketplace of 200 AI-powered agents.
- DingTalk AI assistants can now process images, videos, and up to 500 pages of text at a time.
- DingTalk enhanced its AI Assistant to be multimodal, which means that it can process information in a variety of formats.
- Earlier this year, DingTalk reached 700 million users, with the corporate user base reaching 25 million by the end of 2023 and daily active users topping 28 million.
Dingtalk Launches AI Agent Marketplace
Alibaba Cloud on Friday announced that its workplace communication app, DingTalk, has upgraded its AI and launched a marketplace of 200 AI-powered agents specializing in productivity, industry-specific services, and enterprise-facing features.
The cloud computing company said that DingTalk AI assistants can now process images, videos, and up to 500 pages of text at a time, and that users can now turn to AI agents from third-party providers for help with different types of tasks.
Ye Jun, President of DingTalk, said that their goal is for DingTalk’s AI Agent store to emerge as a leading hub.
“We believe AI agents are poised to become the cornerstone of future applications. Our vision is for DingTalk’s AI Agent Store to emerge as a leading hub for the growth and exchange of AI agents,” said Ye.
DingTalk Upgrade Features
The firm said that the upgrade made the communication app a powerful ally for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) businesses and individual developers, who can create and share AI agents on the platform.
To guarantee a high quality of service developers must apply for approval to list their creations on DingTalk, according to the report.
Alibaba Cloud said that DingTalk enhanced its AI Assistant to be multimodal (which means that it can process information in a variety of formats), that DingTalk AI Assistant can process up to 500 pages of text at a time, and users can ask for summaries to make work and learning more efficient.
The firm went further to give the example that a “curious visitor to Hangzhou’s West Lake could upload a photo of one of the temples dotting its shore. The user would quickly receive a summary of the site’s history.”
What is DingTalk?
DingTalk according to Alibaba is a digital collaboration workplace and application development platform that offers new ways of working, sharing, and collaborating for modern enterprises and organizations.
Millions of enterprises and users use DingTalk to stay connected and work remotely. It is not only a tool to help enterprises run their business digitally and efficiently, but also a platform empowered with Alibaba Cloud’s capabilities that enables enterprises to achieve fully customized digital transformation.
Earlier this year, the cloud computing firm announced that the workplace communication platform DingTalk has reached 700 million users and unveiled an AI agent to boost workspace productivity.
According to the report, DingTalk corporate users hit 25 million by the end of 2023, with its daily active paid users reaching 28 million and the number of paying enterprises hitting 120,000.
