Alibaba Establishes Alibaba Token Hub, Fully Embraces the AI Agent Era

On March 16, Alibaba officially established the Alibaba Token Hub (ATH) Business Group, creating a new organization focused on “creating tokens, delivering tokens, and applying tokens,” directly led by Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang.

This is an important organizational adjustment for Alibaba in the AI Agent era, with the Token Hub as the main focus to strengthen AI business strategy collaboration and fully promote Alibaba’s AI strategy implementation.

The Alibaba Token Hub includes Tongyi Laboratory, MaaS Business Line, Qianwen Business Department, Wukong Business Department, and AI Innovation Business Department, covering everything from foundational model development and model service platforms to AI applications for individuals and enterprises.

Among them, the Wukong Business Department appears in the public eye for the first time, positioned as a “B-end AI native work platform that deeply integrates model capabilities into enterprise workflows.” This means that, in addition to the C-end AI application Qianwen App, Alibaba will also focus on the B-end AI application market.

Below is the full internal announcement—

Dear Alibaba team:

We are currently on the eve of the explosion of AGI. A vast number of digital tasks will be supported by hundreds of billions of AI Agents, which will run on tokens generated by models, becoming the main carriers of human interaction with the digital world.

Facing this historic opportunity, the group has decided to officially establish the Alibaba Token Hub (ATH) Business Group, creating a new organization centered on “creating tokens, delivering tokens, and applying tokens.”

The Alibaba Token Hub Business Group is directly led by me, strengthening strategic collaboration across AI businesses, reshaping work methods with AI, and maintaining an agile organization. The specific businesses include:

• Tongyi Laboratory: Creating leading multimodal models, continuously pushing the limits of foundational model capabilities to provide the most advanced models for the group and industry.

• MaaS Business Line: Building an efficient, open model service platform and technical system to support the entire industry’s AI ecosystem.

• Qianwen Business Department: Developing the best personal AI assistant.

• Wukong Business Department: Building a B-end AI native work platform, deeply integrating model capabilities into enterprise workflows.

• AI Innovation Business Department: Exploring various AI innovative applications and rapidly validating new models and markets.

These adjustments are effective immediately. Let’s give our best effort!

Daniel Zhang

March 16, 2026