Chinese businesses are giving away AI tokens with coffee, credit cards, and dumplings

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Chinese businesses are increasingly distributing AI tokens as consumer incentives, integrating them into products like credit cards, coffee purchases, and mobile data plans. This surge aligns with a massive rise in daily AI token consumption in China, reaching 500 trillion tokens by mid-2026. Lower token prices from Chinese AI models are enabling widespread experimentation with consumer-facing AI token packages.

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