MAI-UI Technical Report: Real-World Centric Foundation GUI Agents research paper by Alibaba (Qwen), 2025
Alibaba (Qwen) · Multimodal and robotics · Dec 26, 2025 · 109 citations · 31 upvotes · unverified
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MAI-UI is a family of foundation GUI agents that uses a self-evolving data pipeline and online reinforcement learning for navigation.
By Hanzhang Zhou, Xu Zhang, Panrong Tong and 8 more · arXiv 2512.22047 · PDF · Code
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About this paper
- Venue
- arXiv.org
- Citations
- 109, 18 influential · Semantic Scholar
- Upvotes
- 31 · Hugging Face
- Lab
- Alibaba (Qwen) · on Companies · on Quarterly
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MAI-UI is a family of foundation GUI agents that uses a self-evolving data pipeline and online reinforcement learning for navigation.
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