{"id":187196,"date":"2025-11-18T13:58:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T13:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/187196\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T13:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T13:58:13","slug":"alibaba-bets-on-everything-app-qwen-to-define-ai-era-for-global-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/187196\/","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba bets on \u2018everything app\u2019 Qwen to define AI era for global consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alibaba Group Holding\u2019s new multipurpose <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3330653\/meet-young-talent-scaling-alibabas-ai-future-tongyi-lab-developer-qwen-models?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">artificial intelligence consumer app, Qwen<\/a>, has the potential to become China\u2019s \u201csuper-app\u201d in the AI era in the same way Tencent Holdings\u2019 WeChat defined the mobile internet age, analysts say.Powered by <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3329921\/airbnb-picks-alibabas-qwen-over-chatgpt-win-chinese-open-source-ai?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alibaba Cloud\u2019s own model series<\/a> of the same name, Qwen quickly jumped to fourth overall on Apple\u2019s app store for free apps in Hong Kong and fifth in mainland China on its second day of beta testing.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The app, billed as \u201cthe best personal AI assistant\u201d, is designed to meet both the professional and personal needs of users, with capabilities including deep research, image generation and slide generation.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3331991\/alibaba-doubles-down-super-scale-computing-infrastructure-plans-ai-demand-grows?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alibaba Cloud<\/a> is the AI and cloud computing unit of Hangzhou-based Alibaba, owner of the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Alibaba\u2019s ultimate goal was to develop not just a simple chatbot but rather an \u201ceverything app\u201d \u2013 an integrated platform that revolutionised the way users interacted with the digital world \u2013 according to Poe Zhao, a Beijing-based tech analyst and founder of the Hello China Tech newsletter.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US and China AI giants, including Alibaba, have identified an \u201ceverything app\u201d as their ultimate goal. Photo: Shutterstock\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/b1f01cdf-190b-44a6-819a-4de1a9c734a2_0e2c23f9.jpg\" title=\"US and China AI giants, including Alibaba, have identified an \u201ceverything app\u201d as their ultimate goal. Photo: Shutterstock\"\/>US and China AI giants, including Alibaba, have identified an \u201ceverything app\u201d as their ultimate goal. Photo: Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Central to this is Alibaba\u2019s broad ecosystem of existing services, spanning maps, e-commerce, payment, food delivery and entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alibaba Group Holding\u2019s new multipurpose artificial intelligence consumer app, Qwen, has the potential to become China\u2019s \u201csuper-app\u201d in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,8472,24532,311,289,290,1793,8473,297,381,18,4202,19,17,307,21385,19453,82,1475,29198,39106],"class_list":{"0":"post-187196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-alibaba","10":"tag-alibaba-cloud","11":"tag-apple","12":"tag-artificial-intelligence","13":"tag-artificialintelligence","14":"tag-beijing","15":"tag-bytedance","16":"tag-chatgpt","17":"tag-china","18":"tag-eire","19":"tag-hong-kong","20":"tag-ie","21":"tag-ireland","22":"tag-openai","23":"tag-qwen","24":"tag-south-china-morning-post","25":"tag-technology","26":"tag-tencent","27":"tag-wechat","28":"tag-zillow"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115571059089251125","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}