Alibaba Releases Open-Source AI Agent to Rival OpenAI’s Deep Research

Alibaba releases open-source AI agent to rival OpenAI’s Deep Research

The company says its deep research agent shows ‘incredible efficiency’ compared with US proprietary tools.

Alibaba Releases Tongyi DeepResearch: A 30B-Parameter Open-Source Agentic LLM Optimized for Long-Horizon Research

Table of contentsWhat the benchmarks show ?Architecture and inference profileTraining pipeline: synthetic data + on-policy RLRole in document and web research workflowsKey features of Tongyi DeepResearch-30B-A3BSummary Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab has open-sourced Tongyi-DeepResearch-30B-A3B, an agent-specialized large language model built for long-horizon, deep information-seeking with web tools. The model uses a mixture-of-experts (MoE) design with ~3…