China’s Singles’ Day shopping festival featured AI token packages as a significant consumer product category for the first time, the article reported. Top livestreamer Austin Li sold 100,000 monthly memberships of Alibaba’s QwenWork office AI service within half an hour during a Taobao Live broadcast on Monday, equivalent to about 2 trillion AI tokens, according to the company. The livestream was Li’s first sale of AI products and showcased QwenWork token plans, AI-enabled laptops and workplace devices; Alibaba Group vice president and QwenWork chief executive Chen Yusen appeared and discussed using AI to build a digital avatar of Li to chat with fans around the clock, saying AI could not replace Li but could handle everyday tasks. Alibaba’s Tmall launched an AI Token Center offering consumer token packages from Alibaba Cloud, MiniMax, Moonshot AI and Z.AI, while JD.com introduced an AI token section with services from companies including DeepSeek, Z.AI and ByteDance’s Volcano Engine. Alibaba said sales of AI token plans from October 1 to October 20 soared 450% from the previous month, and sales of AI personal-computer laptops surged more than 300% year-on-year in the first hour of the Nov. 11 checkout period. Omdia chief analyst Lian Jye Su said frequent users can run short of credits, making extensive purchases during a sales period “a very