# AI shopping
Latest news and articles about AI shopping
Total: 5 articles found
Google Turns AI Answers into a Checkout: Shopping Moves Inside Search and Gemini
Google is experimenting with a feature that enables direct purchases inside Search and its Gemini chatbot, aiming to monetise AI-driven interactions by turning answers into transactions. The initiative could reshape digital advertising and e-commerce economics, while raising privacy and competition questions.
AI's Bubble‑Tea Blitz: Alibaba's Qianwen Floods Shops with Millions of Low‑Cost Orders
Alibaba’s Qianwen used a RMB 3 billion subsidy campaign to drive an early wave of AI‑powered shopping, triggering more than 10 million orders in nine hours and overwhelming some bubble‑tea shops and couriers. The promotion succeeded at user acquisition but exposed technical glitches, uneven merchant economics and limits in AI recommendations when customers sought novelty.
Alibaba’s Qianwen Rolls Out ¥3bn Lunar New Year Giveaway to Push AI Shopping into the Mass Market
Alibaba’s Qianwen launched a ¥3 billion Lunar New Year promotion that hands every user a 25-yuan no-threshold voucher and rewards referrals with additional coupons, leveraging integrations into Taobao Flash Buy, Fliggy and Amap to promote AI-enabled, one-sentence shopping. The campaign aims to convert holiday-driven trial into habitual, AI-mediated commerce, but presents operational, competitive and regulatory risks.
Jack Ma Reappears at Alibaba as New AI Shopping App Prepares a RMB3bn Lunar New Year Push
Jack Ma's recent visit to Alibaba's Qianwen team coincides with a planned RMB3 billion Lunar New Year promotional campaign for the AI-enabled shopping app. The effort aims to embed Qianwen in everyday holiday consumption by leveraging Alibaba's ecosystem, but it carries commercial and regulatory risks.
Alibaba’s Qianwen Escalates Spring Festival Subsidy War — 3 Billion RMB Pushes AI from Chat into Commerce
Qianwen has launched a 3 billion yuan Spring Festival campaign, enlisting multiple Alibaba ecosystem services to offer free orders and large cash red packets aimed at turning AI from a chat tool into a transactional assistant. The push comes amid competition from rivals such as Yuanbao, which offered 1 billion yuan in red packets, and marks a broader pivot by Chinese platforms to embed AI into everyday commerce during the high-spend Lunar New Year period.