Before AI Starts Bargaining for You, Who Standardized the Grammar of 'Chicken' and 'Duck'?

When both buyers and sellers start letting AI handle negotiations for them, how do we unify the "language" of the business world? 1688, in collaboration with the China Electronics Standardization Institute and Ant Group, launched the UTP (Universal Transaction Protocol). Essentially, it's addressing the oldest pain point in B2B transactions: "talking past each other." I've worked on medical AI imaging products, so I know firsthand that when deploying in clinical settings, the biggest hurdle isn't insufficient algorithm accuracy—it's that different hospitals' information systems, imaging equipment, and diagnostic workflows all speak their own languages. No matter how strong an AI imaging model is, if even the metadata fields in DICOM format aren't parsed consistently, the result is "the algorithm flies in the lab but becomes useless paper in the clinic." The same logic applies to 1688's AI trading.