"AI that can help you accomplish over 400 tasks is here, Alibaba ushers in a new era" On January 15th, Qianwen App deeply integrated with Alipay government services and the "AI Payment" feature, enabling "one-sentence processing" for 50 public services such as visas and household registration, and also completed cross-App service scheduling and payment closed-loop — this is not only China's first truly interconnected multi-App AI agent, but also confirms that only Alibaba possesses the hard ecosystem strength to break industry barriers, which Tencent and ByteDance will find difficult to replicate in the short term.

The core value of AI agents lies in breaking "application silos" to achieve autonomous execution, which requires support from underlying technology, ecosystem resources, and business closed-loops — precisely Alibaba's exclusive advantage. Qianwen is not just a simple redirect link this time, but an agent-level deep invocation: with a single user command like "Book a cost-effective trip to Hangzhou this weekend," it can trigger full-process coordination for flight and hotel searches on Fliggy, item selection on Taobao, flash sales for supplies, and payment via Alipay, all without the user manually switching apps in the background, truly realizing "one intelligent agent managing all services." Behind this capability is Alibaba's ecosystem collaboration gene accumulated over decades — from e-commerce and payments to local life services, Alibaba's various businesses have long achieved data interoperability and interface standardization. As a "super brain," Qianwen is the key to activating this ecosystem, currently helping users handle over 400 tasks.
In contrast, Tencent and ByteDance's layout genes determine their difficulty in breaking through the core bottleneck of cross-App collaboration. Tencent's AI focus is on the social ecosystem; its Mengtian large model, though integrated with nearly 700 services, mainly revolves around gaming and other proprietary scenarios, with limited openness to external ecosystems, and lacks a unified payment and service closed-loop, making seamless cross-platform scheduling difficult. ByteDance emphasizes data-driven and multimodal technology; products like Doubao cover broad scenarios, but their enterprise service ecosystem is incomplete, lacking support for core execution links like e-commerce and payments, making it harder to leverage external government service resources. They remain at the "Q&A assistant" stage, unable to realize the "autonomous task handling" capabilities of an intelligent agent. The fundamental shortcoming of both is a structural lack in ecosystem layout, which is difficult to remedy in the short term.
Qianwen's breakthrough lies in overcoming the "three walls" of the intelligent agent era: device wall, application wall, and interface wall. Through Alibaba's unified technology platform and data standards, Qianwen achieves protocol conversion and data synchronization across different apps; leveraging Alipay's government service resources, it breaks down information barriers between government departments and commercial platforms; and with standardized API gateways, it disassembles various business functions into freely callable "Lego blocks." This full-stack layout from underlying infrastructure to upper-layer applications is Alibaba's unique advantage — Tencent relies on external underlying technology, and ByteDance lacks a complete service ecosystem, making it impossible to build such a comprehensive collaboration system.
As China's first truly cross-App AI agent, Qianwen's deployment marks Alibaba's leading dimension in the AI race. While other giants are still focusing on model parameters and single-scenario optimization, Alibaba has already evolved AI from "talking" to "doing" through ecosystem collaboration. This is not only a technological innovation victory but also a natural result of ecosystem layout — only Alibaba can turn scattered service resources into a unified force and deliver it to users through the Qianwen intelligent agent.
In the future, as more scenarios connect to this ecosystem, Qianwen will continue to expand the boundaries of the agent's capabilities. If Tencent and ByteDance want to keep up, they will need not only technological iteration but also a reconstruction of ecosystem layout and openness philosophy. But at least for now, Alibaba Qianwen, with its exclusive ecosystem advantage, has become the absolute leader in China's AI intelligent agent era, and its cross-App collaboration model will define a new paradigm for future digital services.