It is revealed that Alibaba enters the “shrimp farming” track, JVS laptops and mini hosts will be launched

[ Gearbest Technology News]On March 23, according to “Blue Whale News”, Alibaba will launch two AI Agent hardware products, named JVS Book notebook terminal and JVS Box mini host. Among them, the notebook terminal focuses on mobile office, is built based on the OpenClaw-like architecture, and is deeply integrated with the JVS Claw platform; the JVS Box is oriented towards desktop office, and as a desktop-level AI Agent workstation, it also uses the OpenClaw-like architecture. The above-mentioned hardware products are led by Alibaba Cloud Wuying team, which plans to extend from the software platform to hardware terminals to build a complete AI Agent experience.

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According to CNMO’s understanding, the so-called “shrimp farming” refers to the deployment and use of the open source AI execution framework OpenClaw. In March, AI agent “shrimp farming” became one of the tracks that attracted much attention in the AI ​​circle. As this technology attracts attention, domestic Internet manufacturers have entered the market one after another. On March 22, WeChat launched the “ClawBot” plug-in to connect to the OpenClaw ecosystem. On March 13, Alibaba launched JVS Claw, formerly known as “Wuying JVS”, becoming Alibaba's version of OpenClaw product. On the same day, ByteDance Volcano Engine launched the SaaS version of ArkClaw on the cloud, and Baidu Smart Cloud simultaneously provided OpenClaw one-click deployment images.

Regarding Alibaba's upcoming hardware products, some people in the industry have different views. They told the media: How to prove that AI Agent needs a “dedicated hardware”? If existing laptops and mobile phones can achieve 80% of their functions by installing software, what is the value of dedicated hardware?

The media said that in just a few weeks, domestic mainstream manufacturers have entered the market one after another. On the surface, it is because the concept of “shrimp farming” has attracted attention, but the underlying reason is the competition for the entrance to the next generation of human-computer interaction. The current competitive path is mainly divided into three categories: the first is the infrastructure school, represented by Baidu, which mainly provides underlying computing power and one-click deployment tools; the second is the platform ecology school, represented by ByteDance and WeChat, which encapsulates OpenClaw's capabilities more simply through SaaS services or plug-ins; the third is the software-hardware integration school, represented by Alibaba, which extends beyond the software platform to hardware terminals.

Liu Gang, an AI industry researcher, said that AI Agent still faces several core difficulties in moving from “usable” to “easy to use”: First, the stability and reliability are insufficient, and complex tasks are prone to interruption or “hallucination”; second, cross-application information islands are difficult to connect, API interfaces of various platforms are not unified, and permission barriers are relatively obvious; third, hardware terminals still face positioning problems. If the hardware cannot provide a differentiated interactive experience, it may be difficult to form actual value.