Some of China's largest technology companies have spent tens of billions of yuan this year to push artificial intelligence initiatives for the upcoming Spring Festival, marking their most significant effort yet to take AI applications out of labs and into the daily lives of a nation of more than 1.4 billion consumers. 今年，中國一些大型科技公司已投入數百億元，在即將到來的春節期間推廣人工智能應用。這是他們迄今為止最大的一次努力，旨在將AI應用帶出實驗室，融入超14億消費者的日常生活。 The move could potentially give China an early lead in large-scale consumer AI adoption, which may be difficult for its rivals in the United States to replicate, industry experts said. 業內專家表示，此舉可能讓中國在大規模消費者AI應用上率先一步，美國競爭對手或難以效仿。 At the center of this effort is Alibaba's Qwen app, which announced a 3 billion yuan ($420 million) holiday campaign starting on Friday. The campaign offers users free food, retail and services, but only if they make purchases through the app...