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Alibaba's new smart glasses are now available for preorder.
The Quark AI glasses cost $659 and are available in China.
They are Alibaba's first consumer-facing AI product.
Another company is throwing a pair of smart glasses into the ring. Chinese tech giant Alibaba unveiled its first smart glasses, the Quark AI Glasses, in July, and they are officially on pre-sale starting today, Oct. 24. Could they be Meta Ray-Bans' newest rival?
The AI-infused glasses are powered by the company's Qwen large language model, which already has over 400 million downloads and 140,000 derivative downloads, Alibaba wrote in a press release at the time.
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The glasses integrate with Alibaba's ecosystem of services, including navigation through Amap, payments through Alipay, price comparisons through Taobao, and travel bookings through Fliggy. Like other smart glasses, the Quark AI Glasses support calls, music streaming, and language translation.
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