AI Engineering, Agents & Infrastructure

What this field covers

Engineering tools and infrastructure for AI applications and agents.

Projects & technology

• Alibaba Cloud

  Alibaba Group cloud and AI business associated with Qwen and ModelScope.

• Alibaba Group

  Technology group associated with commerce, cloud services and developer-facing engineering projects.

• Dragonfly

  Open-source peer-to-peer distribution system for container images and other large artifacts.

• Milvus

  Open-source vector database for AI applications and vector search.

• MindSpore

  AI framework for model development, training, and deployment.

• PaddlePaddle

  Open-source deep-learning framework for model development and deployment.

• FastGPT

  FastGPT is an AI knowledge-base and agent application platform offering retrieval, workflows and API integration.

• Langchain-Chatchat

  Langchain-Chatchat is a Chinese-community RAG and agent application framework that began as Langchain-ChatGLM in 2023.

• LMDeploy

  LMDeploy is a toolkit for compressing, deploying and serving large language models, associated with the InternLM and Shanghai AI Laboratory ecosystem.

• MNN

  Lightweight on-device machine learning inference framework from Alibaba Group.

• ModelScope

  Model-as-a-Service library and platform for discovering, training, evaluating, and deploying AI models.

• OpenCompass

  OpenCompass is a model evaluation framework for language and multimodal AI, organizing benchmarks, datasets and repeatable evaluation runs.

• RAGFlow

  RAGFlow is a retrieval-augmented generation platform combining document ingestion, knowledge retrieval and agentic workflows.

• Xinference

  Xinference is a model-serving toolkit with APIs for deploying language, audio, embedding and multimodal models across local and clustered infrastructure.

Related technologies

• Open Source
• Python
• RAG

Related topics

• AI Models & Open Model Ecosystems
• Data Engineering, Analytics & Machine Learning

Related Radar coverage

• MNN 3.6.2 improves on-device AI inference

  2026-10-30 · China Dev Radar #002 — On-device AI, Verified AI Coding and Developer Tools