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Alibaba's AI Now Delivers Food & Books Flights
15 Jan
Summary
- Alibaba launched AI upgrades enabling food delivery and travel bookings.
- New features allow task completion within the AI chat interface.
- Qwen App surpassed 100 million monthly active users within two months.
Alibaba has launched major upgrades to its Qwen artificial intelligence application, enhancing its capability to perform real-world tasks such as ordering food and booking travel. These new features, currently in public testing in China, allow users to complete these actions entirely within the AI chat interface, eliminating the need to switch between different applications.
This advancement represents a strategic move by Alibaba into consumer-facing AI, an area where it aims to compete more directly with domestic rivals. The upgraded Qwen App integrates key services from Alibaba's ecosystem, including its e-commerce platform Taobao, payment system Alipay, and travel service Fliggy, creating a unified AI interface.
The company also introduced a 'Task Assistant' feature in a private beta, capable of making phone calls and managing complex travel itineraries. Since its public beta launch on November 17, the Qwen App has achieved over 100 million monthly active users within two months, underscoring the growing demand for practical consumer AI applications.
