Alibaba integrates Qwen AI with Taobao for end-to-end agentic shopping

The Qwen app gets access to Taobao and Tmall’s catalogue of more than 4 billion items, plus Alipay-native checkout, in what is the largest agentic-commerce launch yet from a Chinese platform.

Alibaba is integrating its Qwen AI app with Taobao and Tmall, the company’s two largest consumer marketplaces, in what amounts to the most ambitious test yet of agentic shopping at scale, Reuters reported on Saturday, citing a source familiar with the plan.

Under the integration, the Qwen app gains access to the entire Taobao-Tmall catalogue, more than four billion items, and to a layer of Alibaba-built skills that handle logistics, customer service and after-sales workflows.

From inside Qwen, a shopper will be able to ask the agent to find a product, compare it across sellers, run virtual try-ons, monitor a 30-day price track and place an order.

The transaction itself completes through Alipay, with the AI agent ...