On March 17, Alibaba (阿里巴巴) released an enterprise-level AI work platform application called "WuKong", positioned as the unified outlet for Alibaba's AI capabilities in enterprise work scenarios. Created by the DingTalk (钉钉) team, it is open for invitation testing starting today.
"In the past, people used DingTalk to work; in the future, AI will use DingTalk to work," DingTalk CEO Chen Hang stated at the press conference that day. WuKong continues the product concept of the "Lobster" agent, emphasizing safe and controllable execution capabilities in the physical world. After a user describes a goal in natural language, WuKong can automatically break down the process and attempt to complete the operation, while providing necessary human confirmation during execution. According to demonstrations at the press conference, WuKong can open local folders, edit local documents, call desktop applications, process AI audio transcripts, update AI spreadsheet data, and fill out approval documents.
According to attempts by Caixin (财新), WuKong can build a personal official website within five minutes. However, when tasks involve other application platforms, issues such as login failures, restricted data acquisition, and limited operations may occur, indicating that it has not yet formed a stable execution capability.
Alibaba introduced that WuKong will run as an independent application and be built into DingTalk, supporting users to call and wake it up remotely via mobile devices to complete work in local or cloud environments. WuKong supports connection to the DingTalk account system and secure access permissions, can natively operate thousands of tools on DingTalk, and plans to be compatible with multiple instant messaging platforms including Slack, WeChat (微信), and Telegram in its official version. Currently, WuKong is adapted to multiple models such as Qwen (千问), DeepSeek, Kimi, BBAI (智源), and MiniMax, and also supports adding custom models.
Regarding the security and permission issues that enterprises focus on, Alibaba stated that WuKong adopts a triple security rule system consisting of basic security rules, enterprise custom rules, and questioner authorization, and runs AI tasks through a sandbox, which is a strongly isolated execution environment. Different user permissions, data access scopes, and operation records are all incorporated into unified management to meet data security and compliance requirements.
In terms of ecosystem, Alibaba plans to gradually integrate merchant service capabilities such as Taobao (淘宝), Tmall (天猫), Alipay (支付宝), and Alibaba Cloud (阿里云) into the platform in the form of "Skills". Once integrated, merchants can use WuKong to select products on 1688, conduct background checks, and compare prices across the internet. Caixin attempted to use WuKong to complete these tasks, but due to the anti-crawler mechanisms of the 1688 and Taobao platforms, WuKong is actually unable to execute these operations temporarily.
At the application level, WuKong has launched preset workflows for multiple industries, covering scenarios such as brand official website construction, social media customer acquisition, legal consultation, headhunting analysis, design, manufacturing, and financial invoicing. These are provided in the form of preset workflows to lower the threshold for using AI in specific businesses. Alibaba also announced that WuKong will simultaneously expand into overseas markets.