CHAGEE Apologizes for Zero-Yuan Flash Sale Error; Anthropic Develops AI Chips; Nvidia Launches Revenue-Sharing AI Infrastructure

On July 2, 2025, CHAGEE's online ordering mini-program experienced a system anomaly that set all promotional drink prices to zero yuan, triggering a flash sale and overwhelming the backend. The Hubei subsidiary issued an apology, attributing the incident to a configuration error during a planned 9.9 yuan promotion for the 'Yuanshan Xianqi' series. All zero-yuan orders were canceled, and affected users received three 0.01 yuan redemption vouchers. Separately, AI assistant 'Abao' (Ant Alipay) completed a product iteration and opened public beta, offering 72 smart service skills. Anthropic has begun early work on self-developed AI chips and discussed potential manufacturing with Samsung Electronics. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that AI agent development has not accelerated as expected over the past four months, and restructuring efforts have not yet yielded results. Nvidia announced a new AI infrastructure partnership model involving revenue-sharing and credit support to build multi-tenant AI factories.

Global Impact

Economically, CHAGEE's incident is a minor operational failure with limited financial spillover, though it underscores digital platform fragility in China's consumer market. Technologically, Anthropic's chip initiative and Nvidia's new partnership model could shift the AI hardware landscape, fostering competition and reducing costs for AI development.