On 3 August Alibaba opened public beta for QwenWork, its enterprise agent product, folding together QoderWork, MuleRun and Wukong into one entry for local desktop control, long cloud tasks and team collaboration.
It ships alongside Qwen3.8-Max, Alibaba’s new flagship: 2.4 trillion total parameters, 95 billion active per inference, a 1-million-token context and vision. In a hands-on test the tool read files, ran commands and built a fictional product’s launch deck, dashboard and social campaign from a one-line brief.
QwenWork’s ‘expert suite’ bundles role skills — marketing, product design, investment research, contracts — so users call a function instead of writing long prompts; the marketing kit alone combines eight skills plus a data connector and even checks ad-law superlatives.
A notable safety touch: before a risky command like rm -f, it explains exactly which file will be deleted and whether the action is reversible — rare among agent tools.
The launch drops into a three-way BAT fight. Tencent wired WorkBuddy into Tencent Docs, ByteDance folded Feishu into Doubao, and Alibaba now pairs QwenWork with DingTalk under one business unit. The next contest is less about model IQ and more about who wires documents, messages, knowledge and tools most smoothly into daily work.
Original report: Sohu IT.
Translated and adapted from Sohu IT (it.sohu.com).