{
  "id": 6413046,
  "title": "Alibaba sends AI ‘digital employees’ to work in rival apps from ByteDance, Tencent",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/alibaba-sends-ai-digital-employees-to-work-in-rival-apps-from-6413046",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-09T10:30:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "SCMP Business",
    "slug": "scmp-business",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3366919/alibaba-sends-ai-digital-employees-work-rival-apps-bytedance-tencent"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Alibaba has introduced AI-powered \"digital employees\" that can be utilized within rival enterprise office platforms, such as ByteDance's Feishu and Tencent's WeCom, according to Alibaba Cloud's latest QoderWake tool. This tool allows users to generate fully functioning workers by describing their desired role in a single line. Once created, these digital employees can autonomously work within the three major workplace communication platforms without further training. QoderWake currently offers 10 pre-built roles, including roles like product manager and data analyst, which have been fine-tuned using industry data to execute real-world tasks without additional training. Since its launch in April, nearly 100,000 digital employees have been deployed, performing around 2 million tasks across enterprise scenarios in the past three months. This move reflects the trend of domestic tech companies pivoting their AI models towards business-focused applications. Similarly, Tencent and ByteDance have recently launched their own enterprise AI tools to compete in the market.",
  "summary": "Alibaba Group Holding is giving users the ability to put artificial intelligence-powered “digital employees” to work within rival office platforms, opening a new competitive front against ByteDance and Tencent Holdings in enterprise AI. The latest version of the QoderWake tool, launched by Alibaba Cloud on Tuesday, allowed users to generate fully functioning workers using a single-line…",
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "South China Morning Post",
        "title": "Alibaba sends AI ‘digital employees’ to work in rival apps from ByteDance, Tencent",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/alibaba-sends-ai-digital-employees-to-work-in-rival-apps-from",
        "published": "2026-09-09T10:30:06.000Z"
      }
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}