Alibaba QoderWake 1.0: Nearly 100,000 digital employees start working in teams

Beating AI Express: Alibaba launches QoderWake 1.0, a tool that configures AI agents as "digital employees" and integrates them into real enterprise workflows. Users can generate role drafts by describing a job in one sentence. The platform currently includes 10 built-in roles such as frontend, backend, product manager, data analyst, and content operator, with support for custom roles. The key update in version 1.0 is enabling multiple digital employees to work in teams: different "Wakers" can join the same group, with tasks split by responsibilities. The system uses collaborative SOPs to define task sequences, execution assignments, approval steps, and required confirmation timelines. For instance, a product manager Waker writes requirements, a developer Waker drafts specs, handles development and unit testing, then a tester Waker runs test cases; failed tests are sent back to the developer for revisions. QoderWake also integrates with DingTalk, Lark, and WeChat Work, allowing group chat discussions and confirmed standards to be reused for subsequent tasks. Tasks can be triggered not only by manual @ mentions, but also automatically via schedules, business events, or APIs. High-risk operations are intercepted first and require human authorization. Over the past three months, the company stated nearly 100,000 Wakers have been created, completing around 20 million valid tasks, with roughly half triggered automatically by schedules or events.