The Artificial Intelligence Show · Thursday, October 1, 2026
Alibaba.com's AI agents, like those in Axio, are built on a foundational formula: Agent = Model x Harness x Context. This approach integrates advanced AI models, robust operational logic and tools (harness), and rich business data (context) to create effective agents that can perform complex commerce tasks.
“So agent equals to model times harness times context. So why is it multiplied? Because each element is zero, the entire equation is zero.”
“So model actually is-- how to say, the model includes a lot. It's intelligence power, and we are using, we're leveraging all the frontier models in the world, including the queen.”
“And the harness actually is the key as well. So harness contains all this logic, the loops, the gut rails, the tools that you need to connect. Like we managed to help the users to manage many platforms.”
“And the last but not least is the context. the contacts, including all the real business data, the conversations you have, and also the data from platforms.”