Author/Bowang Finance

Recently, Alibaba released its second-quarter financial report for fiscal year 2025, with revenue increasing by 5% year-on-year to $33 billion, and revenue from AI-related products achieving triple-digit growth. The latest research report from Grong Research Institute stated that cloud services and AI will become Alibaba's new driving forces. In terms of AI applications, Quark, one of Alibaba's strategic innovation businesses, has made significant progress.

On November 18, Quark launched the "Academic Search" AI product, significantly improving the efficiency of information acquisition, creation, and processing in academic work by leveraging AI technology and hundreds of millions of academic documents. The latest data from PConline shows that Quark PC ranks first in domestic PC AI application downloads in 2024, becoming the preferred PC AI product for young people.

Quark PC is a brand-new product released by Quark in August this year, comprehensively upgrading a series of functions such as AI search, AI writing, AI PPT, and AI document summarization.

Academic Search is Quark's latest layout in the vertical application field. Aggregating authoritative literature, Quark has partnered with top domestic academic resource platforms such as VIP and CNKI to build a professional academic literature database with over 100 million records and full-text materials. Meanwhile, Quark Academic Search leverages large model capabilities to provide more than 10 literature references for each AI response, achieving multi-dimensional information summarization and knowledge organization to ensure the accuracy of search content.

Beyond content acquisition, another critical scenario for AI technology is creative writing. Quark can provide AI-generated academic outlines based on users' academic queries, combined with research backgrounds, market conditions, and development trends. It can also generate PPTs with one click, further enhancing academic work efficiency.

Serving the high-frequency needs of office work and study, AI-powered academic search, AI question search, and other features are rapidly updated on Quark. Quark PC's "system-level full-scenario AI" integrates various AI capabilities into various learning and work scenarios. According to the latest data from PConline, the user base of Quark PC has accelerated in the past two months. As of November, Quark PC ranks first in domestic PC AI application downloads in 2024.

Young people are undoubtedly the core user group for AI products, as they are the first to try out new products and apply them to daily scenarios. Data shows that among Quark PC users, young people under 25 account for more than 50% of the user base. Among them, AI search, AI writing, and AI question search are the most frequently used products. Quark PC implements innovative interactions such as shortcuts, word highlighting, screenshots, and plugins, making AI capabilities for search, creation, and summarization readily accessible. It also seamlessly integrates with cloud storage and scanning functions, providing integrated, one-stop AI services.

Market research firm Counterpoint Research believes that in terms of edge-side AI performance, the potential of PCs is still significantly greater than other mobile smart devices. Industry insiders analyze that the flexible ecosystem of computers is more conducive to AI innovation by developers, making them a critical entry point for AI application implementation. Quark PC encompasses all scenarios that users can currently access, where AI can bring convenience and efficiency improvements.

"Providing new content, solving new problems, and greatly enhancing efficiency, AI applications only have new value when they provide new experiences in mass rigid demand scenarios," said a relevant Quark executive. Judging from domestic users' PC usage habits and market prospects, the evolution of AI products has only just begun. Facing users, AI, and the future, Quark will continue to focus pragmatically on providing better and more comprehensive information services for young people, striving to become an all-round AI assistant for users.