Definition
Plain language
Alibaba's industrial search-agent system, used as a comparison point in open-source deep-research work.
As stated in the literature
Alibaba's deep-research agent product, trained with a full industrial pipeline of continued pretraining, SFT, and RL.
Why it matters: It sets a strong industry bar for what a fully-resourced research-agent pipeline can achieve, contextualizing claims by smaller open-source efforts.
For example, when comparing open-source research agents on broad web tasks, Tongyi DeepResearch often serves as the industrial reference point to beat.
Heard on the show
“The headline comparison is against Tongyi DeepResearch, which is Alibaba's search agent at the same thirty-billion-parameter scale, trained with the full industrial pipeline.”Episode 021 — Ten Thousand Examples Beat the Full Industrial Pipeline for Search Agents