(Yicai) Nov. 28 -- Alibaba Group Holdings has released its new Quark Artificial Intelligence Glasses, the Chinese tech giant's first product to integrate its Qwen large language model.

Alibaba launched six Quark AI Glasses models yesterday, including the S1 and the G1, which start at CNY3,799 and CNY1,899 (USD535 and USD270), respectively. The G1 model, priced lower because it lacks a display, weighs only 40 grams but has the same chip, acoustics, and camera as the S1 model.

The Quark AI Glasses S1 are available on major Chinese e-commerce platforms and in hundreds of brick-and-mortar partner stores in 82 cities. The G1 version is open for pre-orders.

The Quark AI Glasses are the first hardware product powered by Alibaba's Qwen, Vice President Wu Jia said at a product launch event. However, what is more significant for the company is that this is the first time the LLM steps out of the screen and into the physical world, he noted.

With the launch of the Quark AI Glasses, Alibaba has begun enhancing the application of Qwen in the consumer market through the synergy of software, hardware, and ecosystem integration.

"Unlike other hardware, the competition among developers of AI glasses lies in their systematic capabilities," said Song Gang, head of smart terminal business at Alibaba. Smart glasses require end-to-end capabilities, and the Quark AI Glasses can fully leverage Quark's vast search data, the Qwen LLM, and integrate with the company's proprietary ecosystem, Song pointed out.

In addition to integrating Alibaba's applications, including Alipay, Amap, Taobao, and Fliggy, the Quark AI Glasses will also feature external resources such as QQ Music, NetEase Cloud Music, and Flight Manager in the future, product leader Jin Xian noted, adding that the aim is to also build a developer ecosystem by supporting the model context protocol.

Editors: Tang Shihua, Martin Kadiev