Alibaba is set to launch its voice-activated personal assistant next week, the latest Chinese tech to follow the path pioneered by Amazon’s Echo.
The Chinese ecommerce group, which has tentacles into digital entertainment, payments and cloud, said it would launch the devices as early as next week. The news was first reported in The Information.
The move comes as Alibaba is burnishing its credentials as a massive data company, harvesting information on consumers across its multiple platforms and using it to enable its merchants, advertisers ad manufacturers to better target their wares.
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