AI tokens are sold as their own product category on China's Double 11 shopping festival for the first time

Xinhua says Tmall's token top-up centre, launched Sept. 3, now carries DeepSeek, Alibaba Cloud, Zhipu and Kimi, with discounted plans such as a Qwen AI Lite monthly card cut from 60 to 39 yuan; Tmall says token-category sales on the Oct. 20 opening day rose 450% from the prior period.

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