{"id":178733,"date":"2026-01-15T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/alibaba-adds-agentic-and-payments-capabilities-to-qwen\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T13:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T18:55:12","slug":"alibaba-adds-agentic-and-payments-capabilities-to-qwen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/alibaba-adds-agentic-and-payments-capabilities-to-qwen\/","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba Adds Agentic and Payments Capabilities to Qwen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2026\/alibaba-adds-agentic-and-payments-capabilities-to-consumer-ai-app\/\">Alibaba Adds Agentic and Payments Capabilities to Qwen<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2026\/alibaba-adds-agentic-and-payments-capabilities-to-consumer-ai-app\/\">https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2026\/alibaba-adds-agentic-and-payments-capabilities-to-consumer-ai-app\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-15 13:40:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pymnts.com\">www.pymnts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alibaba has introduced agentic and payments capabilities to its consumer-facing AI app Qwen App, available for public testing in China.<\/li>\n<li>The app can now order food, complete in-chat payments, book travel, and call restaurants with a single voice or text request.<\/li>\n<li>Qwen App integrates with the Alibaba ecosystem, including Taobao, Taobao Instant Commerce, Alipay, Fliggy, and Amap, to enable these functions.<\/li>\n<li>Through Taobao Instant Commerce, the app can place food and beverage orders, apply promotions, and complete payments.<\/li>\n<li>A new direct integration with Alipay allows the app to perform native AI payments without interrupting the chat, initially available for Taobao Instant Commerce and planned for expansion.<\/li>\n<li>Alibaba Group Vice President Wu Jia envisions Qwen App as an intelligent assistant, shifting from understanding to deeply connected real-world actions.<\/li>\n<li>Qwen App reached 100 million monthly active users in its first two months since its launch in November.<\/li>\n<li>Alibaba has invested heavily in AI, with plans to spend $53.42 billion over the next three years in AI and cloud infrastructure following an investment of over $14 billion the previous year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alibaba Adds Agentic and Payments Capabilities to Qwen https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2026\/alibaba-adds-agentic-and-payments-capabilities-to-consumer-ai-app\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-15 13:40:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Alibaba-Qwen-AI.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178735,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178733\/revisions\/178735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}