Alibaba’s DingTalk on Wednesday announced a partnership with six homegrown Chinese large language model makers to enhance the workplace communication platform’s capacity to autonomously perform tasks from prompts using AI. MiniMax, Moonshot AI, Zhipu AI, http://01.AI01.AI>, OrionStar, and Baichuan will help DingTalk bring about what its president Ye Jun called, “the most open AI ecosystem” in China. DingTalk first integrated Alibaba’s Tongyi Qianwen model soon after it launched in April 2023, and launched DingTalk 7.5 version with its AI agent feature at the beginning of this year. The move brings chosen possibilities on foundation models for developers when building artificial intelligence agents on DingTalk, predicted the company in a speech at its Ecological Conference on Wednesday. [DingTalk, in Chinese]