Ant Group's BaiLing team has released Ling-3.2-flash, a native multimodal model with 560 billion total parameters that activates only 25 billion per step, plus a million-token context and visual self-checking. It is a Chinese bid to match top-tier multimodal assistants while keeping inference costs down.
At the 2026 World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, Ant Group's database unit OceanBase received the Outstanding Contribution Award for building AI data infrastructure, while Xiaomi and AgiBot also took home honors and Siemens pushed industrial AI onto factory lines.
Ant Group has launched Lingguang 2.0, a personal AI agent aimed at China's Double 11 shopping season, taking on Meta's Muse. The app handles price comparisons, coupon math and refund tracking, betting that repetitive everyday errands are the next AI battleground.
Ant Group's health assistant Afu sponsored the medical season of China's hit reality show An Exciting Offer, timed to a global recruitment drive for doctors to train medical AI. The pairing backfired as viewers questioned whether a brand was using young doctors' struggles to sell a chatbot.
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