WebAgent Framework: How Alibaba’s AI Agents Are Revolutionizing Complex Web Information Retrieval

Alibaba’s WebAgent Revolution: Autonomous AI Agents for Complex Web Information Seeking The Next Frontier in Web Intelligence Understanding the WebAgent Ecosystem Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab has pioneered a transformative approach to web information retrieval with its WebAgent framework, comprising three integrated components: WebSailor (Research Paper) Specializes in super-human reasoning for complex web tasks WebDancer (Research Paper) Enables autonomous information seeking agency WebWalker (Research Paper) Provides benchmarking for web traversal capabilities Milestone Developments 2025.07.03 : WebSailor release (open-source SOTA browsing model) 2025.06.23 : WebDancer model and demo open-sourced 2025.05.29 : WebDancer architecture unveiled 2025.05.15 : WebWalker accepted at ACL 2025 2025.01.14 : …