Alibaba's AI chatbot stops working during campaign promoting its capabilities

Alibaba's AI chatbot Qwen temporarily stopped issuing coupons that allowed for in-app purchases from Alibaba-owned retail platforms using chatbot prompts alone, due to customer overload. Alibaba said that 10 million orders were placed within the first nine hours of the campaign that was held to promote the tool's capabilities. Qwen pleaded for users to give the chatbot a break.