Alibaba Bailian (bailian.aliyun.com)
Alibaba Cloud Bailian is an LLM service platform that's been getting attention from developers lately. The basic pitch: training and deploying large models needs a lot of GPU infrastructure, and most teams can't justify that investment.
Bailian handles the infrastructure so you focus on model selection, data preparation, and prompt tuning. It supports the Tongyi Qianwen series and integrates open-source models like Llama and Qwen. You can fine-tune or call the API directly.
If your team doesn't have dedicated ML ops, the managed service saves a lot of headache. Pricing is usage-based, no need to pre-purchase GPU instances. Worth a look if you're exploring LLM deployment but don't want to build everything from scratch.
Chanmama (chanmama.com)
Anyone working with Douyin (Chinese TikTok) livestream commerce probably knows Chanmama. The platform scrapes publicly available data on Douyin creators and products, organizing it into searchable rankings, trend charts, and audience profiles.
The most practical feature is creator discovery — filter by follower count, product category, and average conversion rate to find suitable partners. Before launching a product, merchants can check pricing trends and sales volumes of similar items.
There's also a livestream review feature showing traffic sources, engagement metrics, and conversion funnels. MCN agencies and brands use this data regularly for strategy adjustments. Data coverage is broad and updates are frequent. If you're in content commerce, Chanmama is pretty much a standard tool.
Baidu AgentBuilder (agents.baidu.com)
Baidu's AI agent development platform built on the ERNIE large language model. The key selling point is the low barrier to entry — you can build an AI agent through prompt orchestration without writing code.
Use cases include customer service auto-replies, marketing copy generation, and internal knowledge base Q&A. For teams on Baidu Cloud, integration is straightforward—you can use Baidu Search and Baidu Maps as tools directly.
There's a marketplace with pre-built agent templates you can customize. Product-wise it's similar to Coze or Dify, but with deeper Baidu ecosystem integration. A good starting point for teams wanting to prototype AI agent scenarios quickly.
Cover note: The article cover is a screenshot of Alibaba Bailian's homepage.