Alibaba introduced plans to launch a pair of good glasses powered by its AI fashions. The Quark AI Glasses are Alibaba’s first foray into the good glasses product class.
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Alibaba on Monday unveiled a pair of good glasses powered by its synthetic intelligence fashions, marking the Chinese language agency’s first foray into the product class.
The e-commerce large mentioned the Quark AI Glasses can be launched in China by the tip of 2025 with {hardware} powered by the agency’s Qwen giant language mannequin and its superior AI assistant known as Quark.
The Hangzhou, headquartered firm is among the leaders in China’s AI area, aggressively launching new fashions with capabilities that compete with Western counterparts like OpenAI.
Many tech firms see wearables, particularly glasses, as the subsequent frontier in computing alongside the smartphone. Quark, launched this yr, is at present obtainable as an app in China. Alibaba is moving into the {hardware} sport as a approach to distribute the app extra broadly.
The Quark AI Glasses are Alibaba’s reply to Meta’s good glasses that had been designed in collaboration with Ray-Ban. The Chinese language tech large may even now compete with Chinese language shopper electronics participant Xiaomi who this yr launched its personal AI glasses.
Alibaba mentioned its glasses will assist hands-free calling, music streaming, real-time language translation, and assembly transcription. The glasses additionally characteristic a built-in digicam.
Alibaba owns a spread of various companies in China from mapping to a web based journey agent. Its affiliate firm Ant Group additionally runs the widely-used Alipay cellular service. Alibaba mentioned customers will be capable to use a navigation service by way of the glasses, pay with Alipay and store on Taobao, its China e-commerce platform.
The agency has but to launch different particulars resembling the worth and technical specs.
