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13.10.26 - 15:39
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Big Tech′s Next AI Battleground Is Your Face: Alibaba Takes Aim At Meta Ray-Ban With New Smart Glasses (ZeroHedge)
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Big Tech's Next AI Battleground Is Your Face: Alibaba Takes Aim At Meta Ray-Ban With New Smart Glasses
Alibaba Group Holding unveiled a new generation of AI smart glasses early Tuesday, intensifying competition with its challenger Meta Platforms, which currently sells a lineup of Ray-Ban smart glasses, as Big Tech positions eyewear as the next big battleground.
The Qwen Glasses N1 series, introduced in China, starts at $450 before discounts, putting it in the same price range as Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses. A Pro version, expected to cost around $520, adds eye-tracking capabilities.
Alibaba's Qwen Glasses N1. Source: BloombergAccording to Alibaba, the smart glasses feature 50-megapixel cameras, bone-conduction microphones, and AI assistant integration with the Qwen model. The glasses will support shopping, payments, and health tracking, with battery life of up to 25 hours on standby or nine hours of music playback.
Last month, Loop Capital analyst Rob Sanderson told clients that smart gla...
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10.10.26 - 07:36
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Open-source AI is Europe′s only path to tech independence, says Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai (SCMP)
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Embracing the open-source approach is the only way for Europe to achieve technological independence, Alibaba Group Holding chairman Joe Tsai said, pointing to China's own open-source drive as a blueprint for innovation under constraints.
For Europe, which shares China's deep roots in traditional manufacturing, the open-source approach presented a unique opportunity, Tsai said, highlighting that factories in the region possessed highly valuable manufacturing data.
“You don't want to feed it into......
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