I heard they can offer these low price also because they buy stock of other Chinese marketplace that are in financial difficulties at the moment.

Personally if they go up in prices there is no sense for me buying there, quality sucks for 50% of the items

After trying many different ideas I think you must come out with something more than just a AI software. You could make a product or service that use AI, but not entirely based on AI. I heard different VCs moving more on this types of companies