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Rest of World reports that Chinese bank-linked credit cards award AI tokens or model quotas as spending rewards. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: How China is turning AI tokens into everyday consumer rewards · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:63d8fa8b543b70b922a3ff0d25e21411d2a3c0e0a90a77611c34b3fec4707636

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In July, Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI launched a credit card named after its model Kimi, in partnership with the Agricultural Bank of China and American Express. Users earn Kimi AI tokens ... on their spending, just like credit cards reward consumers with airline miles and cashback offers. The trend began in June, when China Merchants Bank launched a credit card targeting AI developers. It offered new cardholders up to 1.8 billion tokens.

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