Alibaba will invest $1.41 billion in the AI for its smart speakers Tmall the GenieОльга Blinkova | 21.05.2020
Alibaba plans to invest $1.41 billion in the technology of artificial intelligence and the Internet of things for smart speakers Tmall Genie was first released in 2017. The latest model of the column is
$77 and is equipped with 10-inch screen.
Overall, in 2019, as estimated by the company Canalys, Alibaba sold 16.8 million of his columns Tmall Genie. For comparison, sale of columns, “Yandex.Station” in the first half of 2019 are estimated at
60 thousand units (data комнанииCanalys).
Only in 2019 in the world, according to Strategy Analytics, was sold 146.9 million smart speaker, Amazon’s share amounted to 26.2%, the share of Google was equal to 20.3 percent. In third place in the world
located Chinese Baidu, and the fourth — Alibaba.
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