According to the South China Morning Post, Alibaba is aggressively pushing the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, aiming for 100% adoption of AI tools by all merchants by the end of 2025, according to Zhang Kuo, president of Alibaba International Wholesale. Currently, over half of the approximately 200,000 merchants are using Alibaba's AI applications weekly. Launched in early 2024, these AI tools are designed to assist merchants with marketing, product management, customer interaction, and risk control. These measures are part of Alibaba's...

Recently, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, the rise of the AI tool DeepSeek has seen increasing numbers of entrepreneurs leveraging its powerful capabilities for profit. News of a Gen Z streamer generating 330 million Yuan in sales in a single day using DeepSeek for a live stream has attracted significant attention. Reports indicate that many businesses and individuals have experimented with new sales methods with the help of DeepSeek. For example, a business owner from Yiwu successfully sold out their entire inventory using DeepSeek.

Unitree Robotics collaborated with renowned livestreamer Li Jiaqi on Taobao Live, showcasing its latest products – the Unitree G1 robot and the Go2 robot dog – for the first time to the public. The livestream, which started at 8 PM, attracted a massive audience. Both robots performed exceptionally well, demonstrating impressive interactive capabilities. They not only completed challenging actions such as handshakes, forward and backward flips, and heart gestures, but also put on an entertaining show of a "robot walking a robot dog," leaving viewers amazed. Notably, the Go2 robot dog transformed into...

Chinese e-commerce giant Pinduoduo has announced the formation of a large model team focused on e-commerce recommendations, further strengthening its commitment to AI in the sector. According to recent posts on X, the team is led by a former core member of Baidu's Phoenix Nest (Baidu's advertising system), whose salary is reportedly multiple times higher than at Baidu, demonstrating Pinduoduo's significant investment in talent acquisition. While Pinduoduo has not officially disclosed the leader's identity, an X user @TechBitDaily revealed in a February 23rd post that the team has already recruited numerous individuals from Baidu.

Alibaba's stock has shown remarkable performance recently, continuously climbing and attracting widespread attention from investors. The well-known e-commerce giant released an unexpectedly positive financial report last week, exceeding market expectations and further solidifying its position in the industry. The company not only achieved revenue growth but also demonstrated strong profitability, showcasing its robust market competitiveness. Notably, Alibaba announced a partnership with Apple in the Chinese market to support AI services for the iPhone. This news undoubtedly boosted its stock price.

Recently, Alibaba Damo Academy launched a multi-modal large language model named Valley 2, designed for e-commerce scenarios. It aims to enhance performance across various fields and expand the application boundaries of e-commerce and short video scenarios through a scalable vision-language architecture. Valley 2 utilizes Qwen 2.5 as its LLM backbone, paired with the SigLIP-384 visual encoder, incorporating MLP layers and convolution for efficient feature transformation.

Recently, Ali Mama officially launched the commercial-grade Image-to-Video AI Native application - Taobao Star Image-to-Video, based on its self-developed Taobao Star video generation model. This new AI Native tool combines massive e-commerce data, rich design language, and industry-leading marketing experience, aiming to promote the intelligent upgrade of the entire process of e-commerce AI content creation.

Alibaba recently launched the new AI portrait generation project EcomID, along with its native implementation plugin for ComfyUI. This tool marks a significant breakthrough in the currently popular AI portrait generation field, perfectly inheriting the advantages of InstantID and PulID while achieving innovations in several key metrics. On a technical level, EcomID employs an innovative architectural design. The project draws inspiration from PuLID's ID-Encoder and cross-attention components, significantly reducing training loss through alignment.

Alibaba's International Digital Business Group recently announced that they are developing an innovative AI conversational procurement engine aimed at revolutionizing the procurement experience in B2B e-commerce. The engine is set to be unveiled to the public for the first time this September, focusing on serving small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by helping them optimize their procurement processes globally, making it more intuitive and efficient.

The Meitu Design Studio Team Edition has officially launched. This version is not only a design tool but also a design and collaboration tool. It aims to help teams enhance their imaging work efficiency, allowing every team member to participate in the design process. Currently, the Team Edition is available on the web, and users can experience it by visiting team.designkit.com.

In the field of live commerce, the Streamer-Sales large model is leading a technological revolution, bringing unprecedented changes to live selling through its innovative AI technology. This powerful tool can not only automatically generate engaging product descriptions to attract customers but also answer various customer questions in real-time, becoming a smart assistant for streamers.

Shopify announced a series of AI-focused updates on Monday, including the early release of the AI chatbot 'Sidekick'. Sidekick is designed to assist merchants by helping them create discount codes, generate store reports, and suggest blog post ideas.

Joe Tsai, chairman of Alibaba Group, stated that the company will focus on e-commerce and cloud services. E-commerce presents the most abundant AI application scenarios, and Alibaba is increasing its investment in related technologies. Tsai believes that the founders becoming significant shareholders demonstrates confidence in the company and serves as an important signal. A strong management team is crucial for the company's development, as it can instill new confidence in employees.

Douyin has officially launched the AI live stream clipping feature, which may lead to the elimination of third-party teams. The new feature supports automatic editing and publishing of live stream replays, allowing merchants to manually edit and generate high-quality short videos. Live stream clipping has become an important means for top Douyin anchors to drive sales, but as more participants join, the problem of internal competition has become increasingly severe. The introduction of Douyin's official AI tools accelerates the elimination of third-party teams, intensifying competition. The clipping industry is massive, with top anchors generating revenues of several hundred million yuan from clipping-based sales, but issues related to resource competition and traffic also arise.

Microsoft and Walmart have teamed up to implement generative AI technology in a new e-commerce search feature. Walmart leverages Microsoft's Azure OpenAI large language model alongside its e-commerce data, similar to ChatGPT's search capabilities. The generative AI search simplifies the product selection process for users on e-commerce platforms, enhancing the shopping experience. The feature has already been launched in Walmart's iOS mobile application and is expected to create an industry value ranging from $40 billion to $660 billion. Walmart focuses on improving shopping efficiency and has previously introduced a one-click fitting feature on social e-commerce platforms.