Alibaba sold nearly 100,000 monthly QwenWork subscriptions in roughly 30 minutes during the Singles' Day sales push, according to the South China Morning Post, shifting investor attention to whether customers will pay for its AI offerings. The monthly plans make the promotion a test of willingness to pay rather than only of how widely the Qwen models have spread, though sign-ups say little about renewal rates or profitability. A TMTPost analysis published today frames pressure on both Alibaba and Tencent to show concrete revenue and productivity gains after heavy AI spending. Over the past twelve months, Alibaba has committed roughly 120 billion yuan to AI and cloud infrastructure, and its original pledge of 380 billion yuan across three years could grow further, according to a report today. Separately, developer testing of Apple Intelligence with Qwen began in China today, with the public rollout slated for December 2026; under the reported arrangement, Qwen will power Siri, writing tools and visual intelligence features for the Chinese market. Alibaba will also provide cloud and AI technology for the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games, with the infrastructure slated to be handed over to Senegal afterward as a national cloud platform, and it opened its first public cloud region in the Netherlands on October 29, with two new data centers in Amsterdam.