Alibaba introduced plans to launch a pair of good glasses powered by its AI fashions. The Quark AI Glasses are Alibaba’s first foray into the good glasses product class.
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Alibaba on Thursday introduced pricing for its upcoming synthetic intelligence glasses and launched a brand new chatbot powered by its newest AI fashions.
The Chinese language expertise large mentioned the Quark AI Glasses will go on pre-sale on Oct. 24 on Alibaba’s e-commerce platform Tmall. The pre-sale value will begin at 4,699 Chinese language yuan ($659.4) however after making use of numerous reductions, will value 3,999 yuan.
Alibaba will start transport the product from December.
The Hangzhou-headquartered agency additionally unveiled AI Chat Assistant, a brand new chatbot mode inside its current Quark app.
The most recent strikes are a part of Alibaba’s aggressive AI push this yr which has seen the corporate launch up to date fashions and a drive to reinvigorate gross sales at its cloud computing enterprise by way of which it sells a lot of this expertise to companies.
However the glasses and chatbot product spotlight an rising space of focus for Alibaba — AI that’s aimed toward shoppers.
Alibaba’s shares closed practically 1.7% larger in Hong Kong and its U.S.-listed inventory additionally rose in premarket commerce.
Alibaba AI glasses
Alibaba first introduced the Quark AI Glasses in July. It is the primary product of its sort from the Chinese language large and the eyewear is powered by the corporate’s Qwen massive language mannequin and its Quark AI assistant.
The glasses assist features akin to hands-free calling, music streaming and real-time language translation.
Many tech firms see wearables, particularly glasses, as the following frontier in computing, alongside the smartphone. The Quark AI Glasses are Alibaba’s reply to Meta’s good glasses that have been designed in collaboration with Ray-Ban.
The Chinese language tech large will even now compete with Chinese language client electronics participant Xiaomi who this yr launched its personal AI glasses.
New AI assistant
Quark is Alibaba’s predominant consumer-facing AI app. Alibaba on Thursday unveiled a product referred to as AI Chat Assistant, which is a brand new AI chatbot powered by its newest Qwen3 fashions.
The brand new mode permits customers to modify to a chatbot type interface and have conversations through textual content or voice. Alibaba mentioned the brand new function permits “AI search and dialog” in a single interface. The thought is that customers can do every part they want in a single utility.
Alibaba mentioned a few of the features embrace picture enhancing, “photo-based downside fixing” and AI writing.
The product is Alibaba’s reply to the rising variety of chatbot merchandise on the market from OpenAI’s ChatGPT to DeepSeek.