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Alibaba, Tencent lead pivot from chatbots to embodied AI for robotics

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What Happened

Chinese tech companies are racing to deploy artificial intelligence models into robots, shifting the battleground for generative AI from digital chatbots to physical autonomous systems.
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Why It Matters

Alibaba and Tencent are betting that generative AI’s real value lies in controlling physical robots, not just answering questions.
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Who's Affected

Alibaba
Tencent

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