đïž China's Singles Day is becoming an AI shopping festival
Reuters reports AI is now deep inside China's month-long Singles Day sales. JD.com says nearly 80 million users asked its AI shopping assistant for advice, triple last year, and on Douyin roughly 5% of October purchases came through chatbot links, per WPIC. Tmall says AI token sales jumped over 700%, and livestreamer Austin Li sold 100,000 monthly QwenWork subscriptions in 30 minutes.
â China's super apps let AI agents search, apply coupons and pay in one place, a preview of agentic shopping the West hasn't reached yet, and a risk for brands that AI assistants skip.
#AI
Reuters reports AI is now deep inside China's month-long Singles Day sales. JD.com says nearly 80 million users asked its AI shopping assistant for advice, triple last year, and on Douyin roughly 5% of October purchases came through chatbot links, per WPIC. Tmall says AI token sales jumped over 700%, and livestreamer Austin Li sold 100,000 monthly QwenWork subscriptions in 30 minutes.
â China's super apps let AI agents search, apply coupons and pay in one place, a preview of agentic shopping the West hasn't reached yet, and a risk for brands that AI assistants skip.
#AI
