Alibaba to integrate Qwen AI into Taobao's 4 billion products: automated price comparison, ordering, and logistics management

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Alibaba has announced plans to fully integrate its AI large language model, Qwen, into Taobao, allowing users to browse products, compare prices, and place orders through conversation, replacing traditional keyword searches. (Context: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicted that "agentic AI" will reshape the $50 trillion physical economy, with computing power demand surging by 1000%.) (Background: DeepSeek raised $7.35 billion in its first funding round, outpacing Alibaba with the "least conditional" capital.) According to insiders at Alibaba, the company plans to fully integrate its AI model platform, Qwen, into Taobao, replacing the traditional search bar with conversational AI. This will allow AI agents to help users find products, compare prices, place orders, and automatically manage logistics tracking and after-sales services. One billion products, found with a single sentence. According to Reuters today (10th), Qwen is the large language model launched by Alibaba. Since its public beta in November 2024, it has surpassed 100 million monthly active users within two months. Once integrated into Taobao, it will provide two layers of service: The first layer is within the Qwen App: Users can browse, compare, and purchase products through natural language conversation. The AI agent can access a catalog of over 4 billion products across Taobao and Tmall and connect to a "skill library" to handle logistics tracking and after-sales issues. The system supports placing orders for over 40 items in a single request, with the payment process completed directly within the chat interface without switching apps. The second layer is within the Taobao App: A Qwen-powered AI shopping assistant is embedded directly into the existing platform, offering virtual try-on features, 30-day historical price tracking, and personalized product recommendations generated automatically based on the user's past order history and shopping preferences. Facing the wave of agentic AI, Western platforms have responded much more conservatively. Amazon has introduced AI into its e-commerce system but maintains a cautious stance: AI provides product suggestions, while the actual decision-making for selection and ordering remains with the user. Shopify has taken a different path, relying on third-party AI agents to integrate into its merchant ecosystem rather than building its own consumer-facing AI platform. Both companies currently choose to keep AI at the boundary of suggestions, without crossing the line into "execution." Alibaba, however, has chosen to let AI cross this boundary directly and integrate the entire consumption chain behind it: e-commerce platforms (Taobao, Tmall), payment tools (Alipay), instant delivery (Taobao Flash Sale), travel booking (Fliggy), and map navigation (Amap). This direction aligns with the judgment made by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in early 2026: he predicted that agentic AI would reshape the $50 trillion physical economy. For merchants, the rules of traffic distribution have been rewritten. In the past, whoever had the highest-ranking keywords in their product titles gained exposure; now, whoever's products can be correctly interpreted, tagged, and recommended by AI agents will hold the key to success. The e-commerce search bar has operated precisely for twenty years. Alibaba is now introducing a brand-new set of rules to the game.

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