BeijingBanks, cafes and telcos now hand out free AI.
The giveaway makes AI inference a routine consumer perk instead of a rationed resource.
Credit-card issuers and coffee chains in China are bundling the tokens the way they once bundled points.
Coffee chains and card issuers have not said how long the free tokens will last.
How each outlet framed it
- Rest of World
- foregrounds China's consumer AI tokenization and 60-90% price advantage enabling mass-market adoption vs US/Anthropic
Sources: Rest of World