Alibaba Group Holding’s international wholesale marketplace, Alibaba.com, expects all sellers on the platform to adopt its artificial intelligence (AI) tools by the end of this year, as the e-commerce giant boosts its investment in the technology. More than half of the roughly 200,000 merchants on Alibaba.com were already using its AI applications on a weekly basis, company president Zhang Kuo said that “he believes that by the end of this year, [the adoption rate] should be 100 percent.