# Alibaba Qianwen
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AI Crashes China’s Spring Gala: Billions in Red Packets, Virtual Stages and a Race to Keep Users
China’s Spring Festival Gala has been repurposed into a high‑stakes marketing and technical showcase for AI firms, with Alibaba, ByteDance, Tencent and Baidu spending heavily on sponsorships, hongbao and live technical support. The central question is whether holiday‑driven spikes in downloads and engagement can be converted into lasting user habits and commercial ecosystems.
Free Milk Tea and Crashed Servers: China’s AI Giants Spend Billions to Buy Users — But Will They Keep Them?
China’s largest tech firms turned the Lunar New Year into a costly marketing contest, using red packets and free-order campaigns to drive downloads for their AI assistants. The promotions produced massive short-term engagement but exposed operational and product weaknesses, and highlighted that long-term success will hinge on embedding AI into daily services rather than on discount-driven spikes.
WeChat Clips Tencent’s Yuanbao in China’s AI ‘Red‑Envelope’ War — A Lesson in Platform Governance
WeChat has blocked in‑chat links from Tencent’s AI app Yuanbao for using share mechanics that the platform said induced excessive forwarding and harmed user experience, forcing Yuanbao to change its sharing approach. The enforcement, which also affected Baidu and Alibaba apps, underscores how platform governance and ecosystem fit now matter as much as model performance or marketing spend in China’s heated AI ‘red‑envelope’ competition.
Alibaba’s Qianwen Open-Sources an 80B Coding Model Optimized for Agents and Local Development
Alibaba’s Qianwen has open‑sourced Qwen3‑Coder‑Next, an 80B parameter model designed for coding agents and local deployment that combines hybrid attention with MoE to lower inference costs. The release aims to accelerate enterprise adoption in China by enabling on‑premise use and customization, while raising questions about IP, safety and the infrastructure needed to realize claimed efficiency gains.
ByteDance's High-Risk Climb: Doubao as the Company's Bid to Own the AI-Assistant Summit
ByteDance has declared its 2026 priority: make the Doubao/Dola AI assistant the central interface that links its consumer apps and cloud services. The company has scaled user adoption rapidly, advanced its model capabilities and pushed into phone‑level automation, but now faces fierce competition from Alibaba and Tencent, regulatory scrutiny, and practical permission barriers from other app and device owners.