Alibaba announced plans to release a pair of smart glasses powered by its AI models. The Quark AI Glasses are Alibaba's first foray into the smart glasses product category.
Alibaba on Thursday announced pricing for its upcoming artificial intelligence glasses and launched a new chatbot powered by its latest AI models.
The Chinese technology giant said the Quark AI Glasses will go on pre-sale on Oct. 24 on Alibaba's e-commerce platform Tmall. The pre-sale price will start at 4,699 Chinese yuan ($659.4) but after applying various discounts, will cost 3,999 yuan.
Alibaba will begin shipping the product from December.
The Hangzhou-headquartered firm also unveiled AI Chat Assistant, a new chatbot mode within its existing Quark app.
The latest moves are part of Alibaba's aggressive AI push this year which has seen the company release updated models and a drive to reinvigorate sales at its cloud computing business through which it sells much of this technology to businesses.
But the glasses and chatbot product highlight an increasing area of focus for Alibaba — AI that is aimed at consumers.
Alibaba's shares closed nearly 1.7% higher in Hong Kong and its U.S.-listed stock also rose in premarket trade.