Alibaba Group Holding’s global business-to-business (B2B) marketplace, the wholesale platform serving more than 200,000 merchants, on Friday unveiled a new artificial intelligence tool designed to make cross-border trade more efficient. Alibaba.com, which operates under the group’s international commerce arm, has created “AI Mode” for its online search engine to help global users reliably find the products they need, according to Zhang Kuo, the platform’s president. Alibaba owns the South China...