Alibaba Cloud is using AI to help it use less AI

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    "url": "https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/11/alibaba-cloud-is-using-ai-to-help-it-use-less-ai/5285815",
    "title": "Alibaba Cloud is using AI to help it use less AI",
    "excerpt": "AI and ML Solves tech support tickets faster and more accurately by keeping them away from LLMs Alibaba is one of the world’s leading sources of large language models, yet its cloudy arm is proudly showing off its own technology that finds ways to avoid using them. Alibaba Cloud has built a system to analyze its customers’ tech support queries that often avoids using large language models to solve the problem, an approach it says has proven faster, cheaper, and more accurate. China’s top cloud provider shared its work at this week’s SIGKDD 2026, the annual conference staged by the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group (SIG) on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, in a paper titled “DualLane: Fast and Reliable LLM Agents for Interactive AIOps via Dual-Path Planning.” The paper explains that Alibaba tries not to have its human staff handle all support tickets, because people are slow and expensive. But when the Chinese cloud champ tried using AI agents to handle many tickets, it found they can respond inappropriately. “Incorrect agent responses arise from several sources,” the paper states. “First, the agent may make errors in tool selection, failing to select certain critical tools; second, the parameters generated by the agent for tool calls may contain issues such as missing parameters, incorrect parameter names, or wrong parameter types.” It gets...",
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