Alibaba’s wholesale platform empowers merchants with new AI search tool to source products
Alibaba.com, which serves more than 200,000 merchants worldwide, will make its new AI Mode search tool available next month
In AI Mode, tailored results and recommendations are generated via natural language queries.
Based on user queries, the AI tool would automatically compare suppliers in minutes – using metrics that include price and production capabilities – and provide straightforward recommendations, Zhang told the Post in an interview on Thursday. Before AI, this was tedious sourcing process that took days or weeks to complete, he said.
The new tool was launched to coincide with Alibaba.com’s inaugural CoCreate Europe trade fair in London, an event designed for small and medium-sized businesses.
AI Mode, which will be available online from next month, shows Alibaba’s sharpened focus on the technology to help improve its products and services.
