Alibaba Group Holding has unveiled a “leading open-source deep research” artificial intelligence agent that it says matches the performance of OpenAI’s flagship Deep Research tool, while being more efficient. The agent has been integrated into Alibaba’s maps app, Amap, and its AI-powered legal research tool, Tongyi FaRui, according to a blog post on Tuesday by Alibaba’s AI search development team, Tongyi Lab. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. Users of Amap can leverage the deep research...