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Alibaba’s Qwen AI app now allows users to book flights with China Eastern Airlines through natural-language commands, marking its first partnership using agentic AI technology. The app handles tasks like ticketing, seat selection, and check-in, and also offers to calculate commute time and book a car. Qwen is part of Alibaba's strategy to integrate AI products into a platform for services, transactions, and proactive user support. This follows Starbucks’ introduction of a mini app in ChatGPT.

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