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JD.com Announces First Fully AI-Integrated 618 Grand Promotion, Kicking Off at 8 PM on May 30
Beijing, May 19, 2026 – On May 18, JD.com announced that its annual 618 Grand Promotion will officially begin at 8:00 PM on May 30, offering immediate availability across product categories with globally sourced products, exclusive launches, and official discounts of up to 50% off.
This year’s campaign will also mark JD.com’s first 618 deeply integrated with AI across both consumer experiences and industrial operations. Leveraging the company’s continued investment in technology and deeply embedded supply chain ecosystem, AI capabilities will power innovations across retail, logistics, healthcare, merchant operations, and a wide range of real-world scenarios.
Simpler Savings, Bigger Value
The 2026 JD.com 618 Grand Promotion centers around “Direct Discounts, Up to 50% Off,” with a simplified pricing approach designed to make value easier to understand and access. Consumers can expect a broad mix of discounted bestsellers, limited-time offers, new product launches, and category-wide promotions across the platform.
JD.com is also upgrading its “Double the Price Difference” guarantee that will allow users to submit multiple claims with an extended application period this year, reinforcing JD.com’s commitment to transparent pricing and consumer trust. Additional benefits include platform-wide coupons, food delivery and travel vouchers, enhanced JD Plus member benefits, and flexible payment options including interest-free installment plans.
JD.com’s omnichannel ecosystem will extend the 618 experience across both online and offline environments, leveraging tens of thousands of physical retail and service locations to provide integrated shopping, dining, healthcare, and entertainment experiences.
AI Brings New Products and Smarter Living to 618
As AI-enabled devices become increasingly embedded in everyday life, JD.com’s 618 shopping festival will introduce consumers to a broader portfolio of cutting-edge smart products, including devices powered by JoyInside, an AI agent for smart hardware.
Following a major upgrade, JoyInside is expanding beyond toys and robotics into a wider ecosystem of AI-enabled home products. Consumers will see the debut of new AI-integrated household solutions spanning educational devices, smart learning lamps, intelligent printers, smart mattresses, cooking robots, mobility assistance devices, and more.
Today, JoyInside collaborates with nearly 200 brands across home appliances, robotics, healthcare, toys, and connected devices, embedding AI capabilities into physical products. The company expects JoyInside to be integrated into more than 10 million smart hardware devices this year.
JD.com is also embedding AI capabilities into healthcare, food delivery, home services, home renovation, automotive services, and financial offerings. During 618, JD Health’s AI medical assistant ecosystem will launch new intelligent service capabilities, bringing together AI doctor, nutritionist, and pharmacist agents to connect users with online consultations, rapid testing, home nursing, and medicine delivery services.
AI Across 3,000+ Scenarios: From Industries to Households
JD.com is uniquely positioned to bring AI into real-world applications through its deep integration of AI across industrial and consumer scenarios. Its AI capabilities now power more than 3,000 use cases across retail, logistics, healthcare, industrial supply chains, food delivery, and lifestyle services, helping translate AI innovation into tangible value for businesses and consumers. The company is building the world’s largest Physical AI operations hub, accelerating AI adoption from industries into everyday households.
The company’s AI-related R&D spending is expected to increase by more than 200% this year, supported by a full-stack AI portfolio, including JoyAI LLM, JINGDONG Logistics’ Super Brain LLM, JINGDONG Health’s Jingyi Qianxun medical LLM, JoyIndustrial LLM, and JoyAI-RA embodied intelligence models.
For JD.com’s merchants, AI is evolving from a supporting tool into a new business operating infrastructure. During this 618, AI will directly participate in business diagnostics, merchandising operations, marketing placement, livestreaming conversion, customer service and after-sales support, helping more than one million merchants reduce costs and accelerate growth.
JD.com’s AI-native JoyStreamers are also receiving major upgrades, evolving from AI livestream hosts into end-to-end livestream growth engines capable of planning, presenting, moderating, selling, and performance analysis.
Across logistics operations, JINGDONG Logistics’ upgraded Super Brain LLM will be deployed at scale during 618, enabling deep AI applications across more than 1,000 core logistics and supply chain scenarios. Acting like a real-time navigation system for supply chains, the model dynamically optimises transportation routes for tens of millions of parcels, reducing empty miles and lowering operational costs. New AI-powered inventory diagnostic tools will also help brands and merchants analyse regional demand and inventory levels to enable smarter replenishment decisions.
May 15, 2026|
Mastercard and JD.com Announce Strategic Partnership to Support Business Growth Through Payments Innovation
Key highlights:
- Initial focus on expanding payment infrastructure to support international business and enhance inbound visitor experience in China
- Collaboration on applying AI and advanced technologies to commerce and fraud prevention tools
Beijing, May 15, 2025 — Mastercard, a world leading technology company in payment, and JD.com, a Nasdaq-listed technology and service company with supply chain at its core, today announced a strategic partnership to deliver innovations that build a more connected, secure and intelligent commerce ecosystem.
“This is the natural next phase in our long-standing relationship with JD.com,” said Michael Miebach, Chief Executive Officer, Mastercard. “Our shared creativity, deep experience and cutting-edge technology will provide people and businesses with the seamless and secure solutions they’re looking for, all while making everyday activities easier and more rewarding. Mastercard will continue to be a bridge between China and the world.”
“Global commerce is becoming increasingly connected and technology-driven,” said Sandy Xu, Chief Executive Officer，JD.com. “Our new partnership with Mastercard will support the development of JD.com’s international business and strengthen our ability to serve consumers and businesses worldwide. By combining JD.com’s capabilities in digital retail, logistics, and supply chain infrastructure with Mastercard’s payment expertise, we will jointly explore next-generation AI-powered commerce and payment experiences powered by advanced technologies, helping shape the future of digital commerce.”
Constructing global payments infrastructure and enable SMB growth
JD.com and Mastercard will work together to further integrate and enhance global payment connectivity by developing a payment infrastructure to support JD.com’s international business development and enable broader use cases in global commerce.
In addition, both parties will jointly explore a cross-border supply chain finance ecosystem designed to support global small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), improving access to financing and enabling more efficient participation in international trade.
Enhancing cross border consumption experience
JD.com and Mastercard will deepen collaboration to expand the payment choices for international travelers in China. This includes supporting the broader acceptance of international cards and delivering an enhanced checkout, shopping, and tax-refund experiences for overseas visitors across JD.com’s e-commerce platforms and retail channels.
The two companies will also explore opportunities to support agentic AI-powered purchasing solutions for consumers and businesses through Mastercard Agent Pay, while also expanding co‑branded card initiatives.
Strengthening a resilient and secure commerce ecosystem
JD.com and Mastercard will deepen cooperation in risk management, identity authentication, and intelligent anti-fraud solutions. Through enhanced real-time risk monitoring and fraud prevention capabilities, the partnership aims to elevate transaction security and strengthen the stability and resilience of digital commerce.
About Mastercard
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re building a resilient economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
About JD.com, Inc.
JD.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: JD and HKEX: 9618), also known as JINGDONG, is a leading supply chain-based technology and service provider. The company’s cutting-edge retail infrastructure seeks to enable consumers to buy whatever they want, whenever and wherever they want it. The company has opened its technology and infrastructure to partners, brands and other sectors, as part of its Retail as a Service offering to help drive productivity and innovation across a range of industries. JD.com’s business has expanded across retail, technology, logistics, health, industrials, property development and international business.
JD.com is ranked 44th on the Fortune Global 500 list and is China’s largest retailer by revenue. The company has been listed on NASDAQ since 2014, and on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange since 2020. Committed to the principles of customer first, innovation, dedication, ownership, gratitude, and integrity, the company’s mission is to make lives better through technology, striving to be the most trusted company in the world.
JD.com Announces First Fully AI-Integrated 618 Grand Promotion, Kicking Off at 8 PM on May 30
