{"id":276399,"date":"2026-02-10T05:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T05:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/276399\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T05:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T05:58:11","slug":"chinas-ai-apps-wield-red-envelopes-in-lunar-new-year-fight-for-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/276399\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s AI apps wield &#8216;red envelopes&#8217; in Lunar New Year fight for users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Artificial intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance and DeepSeek step up fight heading into &#8216;crucial&#8217; holiday season<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/1\/8.jpeg\" alt=\"20260206 China AI\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">The intensifying battle for AI app users in China echoes earlier fights among e-commerce and social media platforms for market share.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>CISSY ZHOU<\/p>\n<p>February 10, 2026 10:53 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">HONG KONG &#8212; China&#8217;s biggest AI companies are releasing new models and handing out &#8220;red envelope&#8221; freebies to woo users ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, traditionally a prime season for companies to drum up consumer interest in Asia&#8217;s largest economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance and DeepSeek step up fight heading into &#8216;crucial&#8217; holiday season The intensifying battle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,6015,363,364,4413,155604,15124,9876,117,111,139,69,15406,145,16742,155603,379],"class_list":["post-276399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-apps","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-chinas","tag-envelopes","tag-fight","tag-lunar","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-red","tag-technology","tag-users","tag-wield","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}