AI toys and robots heavily promoted during the Singles Day shopping festival. (AFP pic)BEIJING: If you are looking for evidence of how enthusiastically China is adopting AI, look no further than the country's premier month-long Singles Day shopping festival.
Shopping via chatbots that recommend, direct and complete purchases is on the rise, AI-enabled devices such as toys and robots are being heavily promoted and consumers are snapping up bundles of AI tokens — units of computing that people buy to use AI models.
For e-commerce firms such as Alibaba 9988.HK, JD.com 9618.HK and PDD Holdings PDD.O, artificial intelligence has offered a new way to keep cautious consumers engaged amid fierce competition.
