July 24, 2011 - According to 36 Krypton's Smart Surge, theAlibabais about to launch this week its first self-developed AI glassesThe "Battle of the Mirrors" has been officially joined.

The AI glasses reportedly have the basic features of most similar products on the market, such as voice assistant, music playback, phone calls, real-time translation, and meeting minutes. In addition, it will be deeply integrated with a variety of functions within Alibaba's ecosystem, including maps, payments and shopping. Sources familiar with the matter said that technical teams from AutoNavi, Alipay and Taobao are all involved in the development of the product.
In terms of AI capabilities, the product will call on Tongyi Thousand Questions as a base model, while Quark will train learning and health-oriented pendant models.
The report also says that the AI glasses will surpass the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses in terms of hardware specifications. It will come in two versions: AI smart glasses without display and AI + AR smart glasses with display, with the latter having a higher priority. In terms of hardware architecture, the product will have a dual-chip architecture with Qualcomm Snapdragon AR1 and Hengxuan BES2800 chips.
It is reported that the glasses are completed by the Tmall Elf hardware team and Quark AI R & D team, the main person in charge of Alibaba's intelligent information business group intelligent terminal business leader Song Gang, who has served as the main architect of a number of Huawei's flagship cell phone, led the research and development of a full range of intelligent hardware products such as smartphones, gaming devices, robots, XR devices and home mobile terminals.
1AI noted that last month Xiaomi released its first AI glasses, the price of 1999 yuan, the product form is basically the standard Ray-Ban Meta.