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Alibaba Cloud Launches Multimodal Interaction Development Kit for AI Devices

Jan 08, 2026, 12:05 a.m. ET

Alibaba Cloud on Wednesday unveiled a multimodal interaction development kit at its Tongyi Smart Hardware Exhibition. The kit integrates three foundational Tongyi large language models—Qianwen, Wanxiang, and Bailing—and comes preloaded with over a dozen Agents and MCP tools covering areas such as daily life, leisure, and workplace productivity.

The suite enables devices to hear, see, reason, and interact with the physical world, making it suitable for AI glasses, learning machines, companion toys, and intelligent robots, Alibaba Cloud said.

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