Alibaba upgrades Qwen app to order food, book travel

Alibaba on Thursday launched significant upgrades ‍to its Qwen artificial intelligence app, saying it could now execute tasks such as order ⁠food delivery and make travel bookings as it more aggressively pushes into consumer-facing AI.

The new features, now in public testing in China, enable users to complete such tasks entirely within ‌the AI chat interface, ‌without switching between applications.