Company

Alibaba

The Chinese e-commerce and cloud group behind Taobao, Tmall, Alibaba Cloud and the Qwen AI models, which also makes AI smart glasses for the Chinese market.

About Alibaba

Alibaba Group was founded in 1999 in Hangzhou, China, by Jack Ma and a group of co-founders, and is still headquartered there. It is listed in New York and Hong Kong. Its businesses include the Taobao and Tmall shopping platforms in China, AliExpress and Alibaba.com abroad, and Alibaba Cloud, which also develops the Qwen family of open AI models. Alipay, the payment app widely used in China, is run by its affiliate Ant Group.

Smart glasses

Alibaba entered wearables with AI smart glasses sold in China, built around its own AI assistant and services. In October 2026 it launched the N1 series, display-free AI glasses that include the Qwen N1 Pro. Alibaba's pages for them list eye tracking, iris authentication for paying with Alipay, a 50MP camera and 4K video recording.