MAI-UI GUI Agent: How Alibaba’s AI Finally Solves Real-World Mobile Automation

MAI-UI: The GUI Agent That Finally Understands Real-World Mobile Tasks What makes MAI-UI fundamentally different from previous GUI agents? It directly addresses the four critical gaps that have kept these systems from production deployment: the inability to ask clarifying questions, reliance on brittle UI-only actions, lack of a practical device-cloud architecture, and poor handling of dynamic environments. By solving these through a unified self-evolving data pipeline, online reinforcement learning framework, and native device-cloud collaboration, MAI-UI achieves a 76.7% success rate on real-world mobile tasks—nearly doubling the performance of previous end-to-end models. The vision of AI agents that can control our …