Alibaba announced on Tuesday the launch of Wukong, a new enterprise artificial intelligence platform developed to give businesses a single control point for multiple AI agents while providing enterprise-grade security infrastructure. The offering is in an invitation-only testing phase, according to the company announcement.
Wukong is built to manage a variety of AI agents that perform tasks beyond simple prompt-response chat. The platform will coordinate agents that handle document editing, approvals, meeting transcription and research, among other activities. Unlike chatbots that primarily reply to user prompts, the agents Wukong manages are intended to take proactive actions and commonly require wider access to corporate data and internal systems in order to operate.
The name Wukong references the Monkey King figure from the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West. Alibaba plans to distribute the platform both as a standalone desktop application and through DingTalk, the company’s cloud-based communications tool. DingTalk is reported to have over 20 million corporate users.
Alibaba said it will expand Wukong’s reach by linking the platform to other messaging services, including Slack, Microsoft Teams and Tencent’s WeChat, to improve access on mobile devices. Over time, Wukong will be progressively integrated into Alibaba’s broader e-commerce suite, including Taobao and Alipay.
The product announcement came a day after Alibaba disclosed a corporate reorganization. The Wukong AI agent platform has been placed under a newly created business group called Alibaba Token Hub. The Token Hub will concentrate on developing and applying AI tokens and will assume oversight of several existing internal AI units, including Tongyi Laboratory, the MaaS Business Line, Qwen and AI Innovation.
Alibaba said CEO Eddie Wu will lead the new business group. The company described AI tokens as units of data or value used within AI systems, covering inputs, outputs or usage linked to computing. In an internal memo posted Monday on the company news portal Alizila, Wu framed the restructuring as a "historic opportunity" and said Alibaba stands at the "threshold of an [artificial general intelligence] inflection point."
Wukong is currently limited to invitation-only testing and will be rolled out more broadly as Alibaba integrates the platform with its communications and e-commerce services. The company has not provided an expanded timeline for general availability or detailed technical specifications beyond the platform’s intended capabilities and planned integrations.