HONG KONG: The competition in digital speaker-assistants is getting more intense, as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd unfurled an Amazon Echo-like device and fellow Chinese Internet giants Tencent and Baidu prepare to develop their own.
Alibaba’s “Tmall Genie X1” will go for 499 yuan (US$73) to the first 1,000 people during a one-month trial, coming in below Apple’s US$349 HomePod and the roughly US$180 Echo.
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