Alibaba.com unveils Accio Work AI platform for Korean SMEs

E-commerce giant Alibaba.com announced Thursday the launch of Accio Work, a new artificial intelligence (AI)-based business support system designed to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Korea more easily reach global consumers. The subsidiary of Alibaba International Digital Commerce Group said Accio Work’s agentic AI performs tasks automatically for entrepreneurs, including one-person companies, with a level of efficiency typically available only to large corporations. “AI is no longer a futuristic technology. It is a core infrastructure changing ways of business operations right now,” said Shawn Yang, general manager for the APAC region at Alibaba.com, at a press conference in Seoul. “Accio Work brings a large-size company’s operational efficiency to SMEs and one-person startups, allowing them to debut the global market.” The AI agent in Accio Work automatically tackles the entire business process, from market research to product planning, sourcing, price negotiations, product registration, global marketing and store operations. A core feature is that, beyon