{"id":333857,"date":"2026-02-12T16:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/333857\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T16:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:40:17","slug":"alibabas-qwen-tops-120-million-orders-in-6-days-amid-chinas-ai-shopping-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/333857\/","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba\u2019s Qwen tops 120 million orders in 6 days amid China\u2019s AI shopping battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chinese consumers placed over 120 million orders on Alibaba Cloud<\/a>\u2019s flagship artificial intelligence app Qwen within six days, signalling growing acceptance of AI-powered shopping as the company joined other mainland Chinese tech giants in a multibillion-yuan holiday campaign.<\/p>\n

Nearly half the orders came from residents in counties and hinterland areas, with around 1.56 million people aged 60 and above making their first online purchases through Qwen, according to a statement on Thursday from Alibaba Cloud, the AI and cloud computing unit of Alibaba Group Holding. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n

The milestone followed Alibaba\u2019s Lunar New Year<\/a> campaign launched on February 6, in which it looks to distribute 3 billion yuan (US$431 million) in incentives through Qwen. Other Chinese tech giants like Tencent Holdings<\/a> and Baidu are also competing to attract users to their flagship AI apps in a so-called red packet war ahead of the Spring Festival.<\/p>\n

The combination of \u201cAI, social currency [money] and payment elements\u201d during the red packet blitz was poised to ignite the \u201cmost frenzied user growth in the history of China\u2019s mobile internet\u201d, internet data service QuestMobile said on its WeChat account.<\/p>\n

The Spring Festival<\/a> had become a pivotal battleground for tech giants, which were scrambling to build their apps into gateways for the AI era, QuestMobile said.\"LunarLunar New Year decorations for sale in Xiayi county, Henan province. Nearly half of the 120 million orders placed on Qwen came from residents in counties and hinterland areas. Photo: Xinhua<\/p>\n

Alibaba said its campaign had triggered \u201ca behavioural shift towards AI-powered shopping\u201d, which it expected to increasingly become a lifestyle choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese consumers placed over 120 million orders on Alibaba Cloud\u2019s flagship artificial intelligence app Qwen within six days,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,101343,8472,24532,5028,42524,47265,289,290,8474,381,94008,18,47895,19,17,21385,98527,159325,82,1475],"class_list":["post-333857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-apps","tag-alibaba","tag-alibaba-cloud","tag-alipay","tag-ant-group","tag-apple-app-store","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-baidu","tag-china","tag-chinese-consumers","tag-eire","tag-fliggy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-qwen","tag-spring-festival","tag-taobao","tag-technology","tag-tencent"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116058654282018165","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333857","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=333857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}