This week Alibaba Cloud launched MaxAgent, an AI assistant for MaxCompute (its PB-scale data warehouse platform), packaging routine ops and data analysis into something you can ask in a single sentence. Inside enterprises, chores like "slow-job troubleshooting," "month-end billing doesn't reconcile
Alibaba Cloud Embeds MaxAgent in MaxCompute — Costliest Firefighting Outsourced
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