Alibaba is building its own “everything AI app” powered by its in-house model, Qwen.

This app should be fully AI-powered and integrate all features of Chinese super-aps, with similar ambition to American companies but much bigger potential due to this centralisation.

Chinese super apps already include social media, e-commerce, banking, entertainment & more. This gives Alibaba access to more data & agentic capabilities than what can be done in the west with a decentralised ecosystem.

The focus is the same though: to tap on consumers and build profitable B2C AI services and not only monetize their AI models and capacities through compute usage or API calls.

As a reminder, Qwen is widely used aronud the enterprise world and known as one of the best opened source AI model.