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Alibaba's Qwen launches E-Commerce Bench for autonomous business agents

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Alibaba's Qwen team has introduced E-Commerce Bench, a novel benchmark designed to evaluate autonomous agents in long-horizon business operations. This benchmark simulates a year-long online store operation, starting agents with a fixed budget and requiring them to manage tasks such as sourcing, negotiation, pricing, and inventory. The evaluation extends beyond simple profit to include seven dimensions, revealing that current models struggle to consistently improve their strategies over extended periods. AI

IMPACT Tests the ability of AI agents to manage complex, long-term business operations, highlighting current limitations in strategic improvement over time.

RANK_REASON New benchmark released by a major AI lab for evaluating agent capabilities. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Alibaba's Qwen launches E-Commerce Bench for autonomous business agents

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  1. X — Qwen (Alibaba) TIER_1 English(EN) · Alibaba_Qwen ·

    Meet E-Commerce Bench, a new benchmark for long-horizon autonomous business operations. 🚀

    Meet E-Commerce Bench, a new benchmark for long-horizon autonomous business operations. 🚀 Agents start with ¥100,000 to run online stores for 365 days, handling sourcing, negotiation, pricing, promotions, inventory and cash flow, in a market driven by real e-commerce data. https…

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