Alibaba Open-Sources Tongyi DeepResearch LLM, Partners with S&P Global to Deliver AI Intelligence to Chinese Customers

This week’s news roundup highlights Alibaba’s advancements in AI innovation and cloud-driven enterprise solutions, spotlighting the open-source release of its agentic Tongyi DeepResearch model for complex information tasks and a strategic collaboration with S&P Global to deliver real-time, AI-ready commodity datasets to Chinese businesses.

Alibaba Unveils Tongyi DeepResearch LLM for Extensive Information Tasks

Alibaba has unveiled Tongyi DeepResearch, an agentic large language model specifically designed for long-horizon, extensive information-seeking tasks. Built upon Qwen3-30B-A3B, this model achieves state-of-the-art performance, rivaling leading proprietary research agents across a broad spectrum of search benchmarks, despite its relatively lightweight architecture (30 billion parameters total, with only 3 billion activated per token)

Tongyi DeepResearch is now open-sourced and publicly available via Hugging Face, GitHub, and Alibaba’s ModelScope community.

Tongyi DeepResearch achieves state-of-the-art performance across agentic search benchmarks

This technological advancement is driven by a series of methodological innovations. These include fully automated synthetic data generation spanning the entire training pipeline, large-scale continual pre-training on agentic interaction data to progressively expand the model’s capabilities, and end-to-end reinforcement learning using a strictly on-policy approach to ensure precise behavioral optimization.

The model also supports different inference modes to accommodate diverse operational needs. Its native ReAct Mode is designed for rigorously evaluating the model’s core agentic abilities, while Heavy Mode employs context-aware, test-time scaling strategies to unlock the model’s maximum performance potential.

Tongyi DeepResearch is already deployed in real-world applications in Alibaba. It powers the generation of detailed, personalized travel itineraries on Amap, Alibaba’s location-based services platform, and supports Tongyi Farui, Alibaba’s in-house legal AI agent, enabling it to autonomously execute complex, multi-step legal research tasks while delivering conclusions grounded in verifiable judicial sources.

S&P Global Partners with Alibaba Cloud to Serve Chinese Customers with AI Intelligence

S&P Global has partnered with Alibaba Cloud to deliver real-time, AI-ready datasets to corporate clients in mainland China?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=social), unlocking greater AI intelligence in the rapidly evolving AI landscape.

Customers in China can now access S&P Global Commodity Insights’ AI-Ready commodity datasets covering energy, metals, chemicals, agriculture, and more directly through Alibaba Cloud’s Object Storage Service (OSS), a robust and scalable solution designed to enhance data accessibility and management.

By integrating Alibaba Cloud’s OSS with the trusted intelligence of S&P Global Commodity Insights, the collaboration aims to support data analysts and business leaders in China with advanced, data-driven insights across commodity markets. The data feeds directly into Alibaba Cloud’s analytics services and AI engines, including Alibaba’s Qwen large language model. This enables faster insights, stronger data integrity under compliance controls, and a ready-made solution for embedding world-class market intelligence into AI strategies.

“This partnership with Alibaba Cloud marks an important milestone in our AI-Ready Data strategy. By bringing our commodity datasets directly into China, we are enabling local customers to access trusted, AI-ready intelligence with the speed, compliance, and scale they need. It reinforces S&P Global’s commitment to powering smarter decisions in one of the world’s most dynamic markets,” said Mark Eramo, Co-President, S&P Global Commodity Insights.

“In today’s data-driven world, organizations face growing challenges in managing vast volumes of information while maintaining security and regulatory compliance. This strategic partnership addresses these needs by offering Alibaba Cloud’s solution that simplifies data management, and S&P’s high-quality, curated datasets optimized for analytics and AI workloads,” said Alex Chen, Head of Product, Compute and Storage at Alibaba Cloud Intelligence. “Together, we are paving the way for a new era of AI-driven, cloud-powered decision-making in China’s enterprise ecosystem.”

WIth its AI + Cloud strategy, Alibaba Cloud provides infrastructure, platform tools, foundation models, and enterprise-ready applications with partners to global customers across industries, while supporting an open-source ecosystem worldwide.

This article was originally published on Alizila written by Crystal Liu and Karen Zhang.

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Alibaba Open-Sources Tongyi DeepResearch LLM, Partners with S&P Global to Deliver AI Intelligence to Chinese Customers

Alibaba Unveils Tongyi DeepResearch LLM for Extensive Information Tasks

S&P Global Partners with Alibaba Cloud to Serve Chinese Customers with AI Intelligence

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