Alibaba Group Holding has upped the ante in China’s crowded consumer artificial intelligence market by adding chat integration to its Quark app, putting it in direct competition with services from ByteDance and Tencent Holdings, as the country’s tech giants ramp up their AI rivalry. The chat feature, powered by Alibaba Cloud’s latest Qwen3 AI models, adds ChatGPT-like text and voice conversational functions to Quark, which already offered tools spanning search to AI writing, the tech conglomerat