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Quark

Alibaba's AI super-app for search, writing, research and document tasks.

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Jun 21, 2026

Quark is Alibaba's flagship consumer AI app, positioned as an 'AI super-box' that folds chat, deep search, deep research, AI writing, slide and image generation, document tools and cloud storage into a single interface. It identifies the intent behind a request, then plans and executes multi-step tasks. Quark runs on Alibaba's Qwen/Tongyi models and is offered across web, mobile and desktop.

Pros & cons

  • Search, writing, slides and research in one super-app
  • Backed by Alibaba's Qwen/Tongyi models
  • Core AI features are free
  • Includes cloud drive and document tools
  • China-focused; needs Chinese language and a local account
  • Limited to Alibaba's own Qwen model family
  • Paid tiers are mainly cloud-storage upsells

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