WeChat Pay deploys Hunyuan-powered AI sales robot at 7-Eleven
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The robot debuted at the opening of Guangdong's 2,000th 7-Eleven location on October 29, inside Tencent's Shenzhen headquarters campus. It greets customers, recommends products and bundles, and takes orders by conversation; shoppers scan a code to pay themselves.
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