(Yicai) Aug. 23 -- DingTalk posted more than USD100 million in revenue for the first full year since the workplace communication and collaboration platform run by China’s Alibaba Group Holding started charging for its premium services.

DingTalk had 100,000 paying corporate users as of the end of March, President Ye Jun said at a company event yesterday. Fifty-eight percent were micro and small businesses, 30 percent mid-sized companies, and 12 percent large firms. DingTalk had over 23 million paying daily active users, he added.

DingTalk, which began charging for its premium corporate services in March last year, has succeeded in its business-to-business format, but needs more time to explore the business-to-consumer route, Ye said. It is working on B2C commercialization, and has other products in the pipeline.

The Hangzhou-based company is also now charging corporate users for its large language model, which can be applied in 17 product lines and 55 scenarios, Ye said. 

DingTalk Professional subscribers can pay an extra CNY10,000 (USD1,372) to use the LLM 200,000 times, while Exclusive DingTalk users can pay an additional CNY20,000 to access it 450,000 times.

DingTalk started internal tests of its version for individuals on Aug. 16. Participants can use various artificial intelligence services such as text-to-writing, text-to-map, and role-based dialogues free-of-charge for a limited period.

DingTalk will split from Alibaba’s cloud computing arm Alibaba Cloud and will come back under the group, a company insider said last week.

Editor: Kim Taylor