Alibaba's new smart glasses take on Meta Ray-Bans - here's what they offer

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ZDNET's key takeaways 

• Alibaba's new smart glasses are now available for preorder.
• The Quark AI glasses cost $659 and are available in China.
• They are Alibaba's first consumer-facing AI product. 

Another company is throwing a pair of smart glasses into the ring. Chinese tech giant Alibaba unveiled its first smart glasses, the Quark AI Glasses, in July, and they are officially on pre-sale starting today, Oct. 24. Could they be Meta Ray-Bans' newest rival? 

The AI-infused glasses are powered by the company's Qwen large language model, which already has over 400 million downloads and 140,000 derivative downloads, Alibaba wrote in a press release at the time. 

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