Ant Group

2025.07.30

10:31

Ant Group AQ launches "Rainstorm Health Service Zone"

Recently, heavy rainfall has continued in East China, North China, Northeast China and other places. For this reason, AQ, an AI health application under Ant Group, launched the "Heavy Rain Health Service Zone". Users can open the AQ APP and click on the special zone card on the homepage to obtain scientific information on health protection such as medical emergency treatment, high-risk infection prevention and control, and post-disaster disinfection.

2025.07.29

14:44

Wang Xiaohang, former vice president of Ant Group, has been appointed CTO of Ping An Insurance

Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China (Ping An) announced today the appointment of Wang Xiaohang as Group Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and General Manager of Ping An Technology. With nearly 20 years of experience in the "finance + technology" sector, Wang joined Ant Group in 2016 and has served in various roles, including Vice President and CTO of the Wealth and Insurance Group, leading digital finance and AI innovation. In 2015, he served as Chief Architect at Baidu, driving the development of Baidu Wallet and its financial services. Previously, he held senior technical management positions at internationally renowned companies such as Google (US) and Bloomberg.

2025.07.28

13:54

Academician Wang Jianan's team and Ant "AQ" jointly launched a medical intelligent body

On July 28, during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Wang Jianan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his medical team, in collaboration with AQ, an AI health application under Ant Group, jointly created and launched the "Jack Peace of Mind Intelligent Body", the first professional intelligent body that connects to smart hardware to provide specialized disease management.

2025.07.27

16:40

Ant open source high-level program large model trusted application technology framework

At the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Ant Group announced the open source of the country's first high-level program large-model trusted application technology framework. The core components include programmatic expression of business logic, scenario knowledge graph and controlled tool chain. The verification mechanism runs through the entire process to explore solutions for large-model reliability.

13:41

Ant Group CEO Han Xinyi: From digital payment to digital payment, opening up the "last mile" of AI services

At the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC2025) held on July 27, Ant Group CEO Han Xinyi shared Ant Group's thoughts on payment in the AI era. He said that the development of mobile Internet has benefited from mobile payment, which has made it very convenient to scan code payment into thousands of households. Today in the AI era, digital payment is still the basis of payment, but it is not completely applicable to the AI era. Ant hopes to open up the "last mile" of payment in the AI era through a series of innovative attempts. Han Xinyi said that Ant has been in business for 21 years. In the first decade, it participated in the process of China's mobile payment and made QR code payment deeply rooted in the daily life of ordinary people. In the second decade, it participated in the practice of China's digital inclusive finance, allowing ordinary users and tens of millions of small and micro businesses to enjoy financial services equally. Facing the next decade, Ant has established the strategy of Alipay's dual flywheel, AI first, and accelerated globalization, and is fully accelerating the transformation to the AI era. He shared three thoughts on Ant Group's focus on AI applications. Han Xinyi believes that AI-driven intelligent services are professional, personalized and automated. At the same time, applications in the AI era are not limited to the digital world, but should also be coordinated with the physical world.

2025.07.24

19:21

Ant Group’s Treasure Box Intelligent Agent launches enterprise version

Recently, Ant Group's intelligent development platform "Baobaoxiang" officially launched the enterprise version, which is aimed at service industry scenarios such as culture and tourism, travel, exhibitions, universities, retail, and catering. It provides one-stop access to mainstream large models such as Ant Bailing Big Model, Tongyi Qianwen Big Model, and DeepSeek, and is equipped with payment MCP, marketing MCP and other capabilities to help companies complete the closed-loop implementation of "AI+business" in the shortest time and accelerate the digitalization and intelligentization of the service industry. It is understood that the enterprise version of Baobaoxiang plans to cover more than 1,000 industry customers by 2025.

10:45

Chengdu City and Ant Group Sign Strategic Cooperation Agreement

According to Chengdu, on July 23, the Chengdu Municipal People's Government signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Ant Technology Group Co., Ltd. According to the agreement, the two parties will jointly promote the establishment of the artificial intelligence enterprise service headquarters and western research and development center of Ant Group in Chengdu, and focus on all-round cooperation in the fields of artificial intelligence scenario application, financial technology innovation, cross-border payment facilitation, etc., to better promote the high-quality development of Chengdu's artificial intelligence industry and the construction of an international consumer center city. Chengdu Hi-tech Zone also signed an investment cooperation agreement with Ant Group for the artificial intelligence enterprise service headquarters project.

2025.07.21

10:12

Apple may cooperate with Ant AI application AQ in the health field

On July 21, according to media reports, Apple and Ant Group may cooperate in the field of medical health. It is reported that the latest Ant Health application AQ iOS version has supported the connection with iPhone and Apple Watch, and AI analysis is superimposed on hardware data to provide users with personalized health assessment and guidance. AQ will also cooperate with Apple Watch to develop a variety of innovative service capabilities such as "emergency rescue for fall detection" based on its safety functions, and continue to develop more AI health applications and services for Chinese users.

2025.07.14

17:23

The first AI agent safety testing standard was released, jointly compiled by Ant Group, Tsinghua University, China Telecom, etc.

Recently, the World Digital Academy (WDTA) officially released the new AI STR series standard "AI Intelligent Agent Operation Safety Test Standard" at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva. The standard was jointly compiled by Ant Group, Tsinghua University, and China Telecom, and more than 20 domestic and foreign institutions, enterprises, and universities such as PwC, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Washington University in St. Louis, USA. It is the world's first single-agent operation safety test standard. This standard targets the "behavioral" risks brought by intelligent agents crossing the "language wall". For the first time, it matches the five key links of input and output, large models, RAG, memory, and tools with the operating environment, and builds a full-link risk analysis framework; at the same time, it subdivides the types of intelligent agent risks, improves and innovatively proposes test methods such as model detection, network communication analysis, and tool fuzz testing, filling the gap in intelligent agent safety testing technical standards.

2025.06.30

11:12

Ant Group releases "2024 Sustainable Development Report" Three major AI butlers have cumulatively served more than 130 million users

On June 30, Ant Group released its 2024 Sustainable Development Report. In 2024, Ant Group will integrate AI capabilities into medical, financial, and life scenarios, and launch three AI butlers (health butler, financial butler, and life butler) that will serve more than 130 million users, of which 43% are from third-tier cities and below.

2025.06.26

15:20

Ant Group enters online medical field and launches AI Q&A App

According to Dahe Financial Cube, Ant Group released the AQ dialogue question-and-answer app in Shanghai, officially entering the field of online medical care. Ant Group CEO Han Xinyi said that the company has been deeply involved in the medical and health field for 10 years, and now hopes to make it more convenient for ordinary people to see a doctor through AI assistants, and help doctors serve more patients. AQ relies on the Ant Health Big Model to provide one-stop services such as registration, consultation, and drug purchase. Ant Group has also established a health and medical division, which is headed by Vice President Zhang Junjie.

2025.06.23

11:44

Hello Robotaxi business completes financing of over 3 billion yuan, introduces strategic investment from Ant Group and CATL

Hello officially enters the Robotaxi track. On June 23, "Shanghai Zaofu Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd." jointly initiated by Hello, Ant Group, and CATL through their investment entities was registered in Shanghai with a registered capital of RMB 1.288 billion. The company will focus on the research and development of L4 autonomous driving technology, safety applications and commercialization. "Zaofu" is a famous charioteer in Chinese history with superb driving skills. The new company is jointly held by Shanghai Yunyan Enterprise Management Consulting Co., Ltd. (Ant Group), Shanghai Junha Network Technology Co., Ltd. (Hello), and Ningbo Meishan Free Trade Zone Wendi Investment Co., Ltd. (CATL), and the three parties have invested a total of more than 3 billion yuan in the first phase.

2025.06.19

07:11

Bosch Group and Galaxy General established a joint venture to promote the implementation of embodied intelligence in the industrial sector

Bosch Group's Boyuan Capital and China Galaxy General announced the establishment of a joint venture company "Chengmai Boyin Hechuang Technology Co., Ltd.", focusing on manufacturing scenarios such as complex assembly and intelligent quality inspection, developing dexterous robots, and promoting the large-scale implementation of embodied artificial intelligence in the industrial sector. As the first batch of results of the cooperation, Boyin Hechuang and United Automotive Electronics signed a strategic cooperation memorandum to establish a joint laboratory for embodied intelligent robots "RoboFab" to explore the application of robots in automobile manufacturing. Recently, Lingxin Qiaoshou Company added CICC Guanbo and Ant Group as shareholders, Zhiyuan Robotics and Hillhouse Capital jointly established a new company, coupled with the dynamics of humanoid robots of automobile industry chain companies such as Xiaopeng and Chery, and the investment layout of GAC, SAIC, BYD, etc., the field of embodied intelligence has become an industry hotspot.

2025.06.17

09:08

Donggang Shares: The company is not currently involved in stablecoin-related businesses

An investor asked Donggang Shares on the interactive platform: What kind of cooperation does the company have with Ant Group? What impact will the issuance of stablecoins by Ant Group have on the company? Donggang Shares replied that its holding subsidiary Beijing Ruihong currently cooperates with Taobao and Tmall in the field of electronic invoices. The company is not currently involved in stablecoin-related businesses, so it will not have an impact on the company's business.

2025.06.12

17:04

Ant Financial starts applying for Hong Kong stablecoin license

According to Jiemian News, on June 12, Ant Group Vice President and Ant Digits Blockchain Business President Bian Zhuoqun revealed at the SNEC Shanghai Photovoltaic Exhibition that Ant Digits has started applying for a Hong Kong stablecoin license and has had multiple rounds of communication with regulators. It is reported that Ant Digits has listed Hong Kong as its global headquarters this year and has completed the pilot test of the regulatory sandbox in Hong Kong. On the same day, Ant Digits and GCL Energy jointly announced the establishment of a new company "Ant Xinneng".

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