The Battle for the AI Gateway: Who Wins?This Lunar New Year, China's tech giants unleashed a new wave of AI application wars. Alibaba's "Spring Festival Treat" campaign, backed by ¥3B, offered deals across e-commerce and local services, logging 10 million free milk tea orders in 9 hours. Tencent doubled down on its WeChat ecosystem, investing ¥1B into its "Yuanbao" AI red packet feature to boost engagement.ByteDance played a different card. Its Dream platform launched Seedance 2.0, a new video AI model. A key breakthrough: it boosted the usable output rate for 15-second clips to over 90%, far above the ~20% industry average, slashing generation costs.Beyond subsidies, this battle tests real AI integration and ecosystem strength. The holiday season is a prime testing ground to shape user habits, collect data, and train models—all fighting to become users' first-choice "AI ask" portal.The stakes? It's not just about traffic. It's about defining the super-app gateway for the AI era, which will ripple across the entire investment landscape.So, who's your pick for the ultimate AI gateway? Alibaba with its commerce power, Tencent with its social lock-in, or ByteDance with its tech edge?