Alibaba says it is opening Qwen to third-party AI agents, starting with KFC, Mixue, and others, and Qwen's app serves 100M+ daily lifestyle services engagements (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post)

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Alibaba is turning Qwen into an agent platform for third-party services, expanding its consumer app beyond chat into transactions.

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<a href="https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3355850/fried-chicken-flight-plans-alibaba-wants-qwen-become-chinas-digital-fixer"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260604/i11.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260604/p11#a260604p11" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Iris Deng / <a href="http://www.scmp.com/">South China Morning Post</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3355850/fried-chicken-flight-plans-alibaba-wants-qwen-become-chinas-digital-fixer">Alibaba says it is opening Qwen to third-party AI agents, starting with KFC, Mixue, and others, and Qwen's app serves 100M+ daily lifestyle services engagements</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; In its latest bid to dominate China's next-generation digital gateway, Alibaba Group Holding is opening its Qwen AI assistant to major brands &hellip; </p>