(Yicai) June 27 -- DingTalk, a workplace messaging app owned by e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding, said it will accept all large language models to create the most open artificial intelligence ecosystem in China.

DingTalk has allied with LLM developers MiniMax, Moonshot AI, Zhipu AI, Beijing OrionStar Technology, Lingyi Wanwu, and Baichuan AI, it announced at the 2024 Make DingTalk Ecosystem Summit in the capital of China yesterday.

In April last year, DingTalk said it will use Alibaba's ChatGPT-like Tongyi Qianwen. It has introduced AI to more than 80 functions in over 20 product lines within a year.

Opening to LLMs is the latest progress of DingTalk's open ecosystem strategy, President Ye Jun noted. On the one hand, the firm needs to explore more LLM uses, with an open ecosystem to meet its and LLMs' needs, while on the other hand, its large enterprise clients have requirements for access to LLMs, he added.

The AI capabilities of DingTalk's instant message, documenting, audio, and video products will remain mainly supported by Tongyi Qianwen, Yicai learned. The app will explore the application of different LLMs in various products and scenarios according to their features.

For example, DingTalk is working with Moonshot AI to explore the use of AI in educational products.

DingTalk is opening to all LLMs because "one LLM cannot meet all users' needs," according to a source from the firm. Allowing users to use different LLMs is a future challenge and an opportunity.

Whether LLMs can profit depends on whether they can solve users' problems, said Wang Ming, vice president of DingTalk. It remains a great challenge to help users find application scenarios of LLMs, Wang pointed out.

Editors: Tang Shihua, Martin Kadiev