{"id":158013,"date":"2026-09-26T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158013"},"modified":"2026-09-26T07:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T07:00:08","slug":"how-alibaba-is-using-ai-to-revamp-its-mapping-app-and-take-on-meituan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158013","title":{"rendered":"How Alibaba is using AI to revamp its mapping app \u2013 and take on Meituan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostLate last year, Zhang Xuan\u2019s small beef noodle joint in Shanghai suddenly began seeing a dramatic surge in orders. Sales over the past few months have been 50 to 60 per cent higher than normal, he estimates.<br \/>\nThe driver? The new Street Stars feature on Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holding\u2019s Amap mapping app, which listed Zhang\u2019s eatery as the fourth best restaurant in Shanghai\u2019s Changning district.<br \/>\nProminently displayed on Amap\u2019s main page, the system uses artificial intelligence to rate&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3368819\/how-alibaba-using-ai-revamp-its-mapping-app-and-take-meituan?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostLate last year, Zhang Xuan\u2019s small beef noodle joint in Shanghai suddenly began seeing a dramatic surge in orders. Sales over the past few&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158013"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}