(Yicai) Dec. 24 -- Alibaba Group Holding's workplace messaging app DingTalk has released more than 20 artificial intelligence products, including what it calls "the world's first work-dedicated intelligent operating system built for AI," in response to intensifying competition.

The main purpose of Agent OS is to operate and coordinate AI agents while building an open AI ecosystem, Chen Hang, founder and chief executive of DingTalk, said at a product launch event yesterday. The aim is to bring more industry players into the app's industry models, AI hardware market, and model context protocol ecosystem, he added.

All DingTalk AI agents will be built and operated based on Agent OS in the future, Chen stressed.

In addition, the enterprise-level dedicated AI hardware released, called DingTalk Real, is "a new integrated hardware and software enterprise product that we have developed with our clients over the past four months," Chen said. It is a new terminal for DingTalk's AI agents, aimed at enabling them to autonomously connect and interact in the physical world, he added.

With features such as real identity authentication, intranet data connection, and real-time data monitoring, DingTalk Real ensures AI agents operate within defined boundaries that preserve human control over the system, Chen said.

With the release of these products, DingTalk also upgraded AI Sheets into an application creation platform for the AI era, Chen noted. "The essence of AI Sheets is to enable AI to understand data and accomplish many unimaginable tasks during form creation,” he said.

Editors: Tang Shihua, Martin Kadiev