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Ant Group’s Lingguang 2.0 shifts toward a personal AI assistant that manages daily chores
The latest upgrade moves away from quick app generation and instead focuses on remembering details, watching tasks, and getting things done for users.
Ant Group has repositioned its Lingguang product with a major update. Version 2.0 now describes itself as a personal AI helper that can handle everyday responsibilities, a clear step away from the earlier pitch of building small applications through natural language in half a minute. The company sums up the new approach in three promises: it remembers, it keeps watch, and it delivers.
The assistant connects to a range of services, including Alipay billing records, DingTalk, Feishu, and Mijia smart home tools. By linking these platforms, Lingguang 2.0 aims to let the AI manage routine matters on a user’s behalf. The effort has drawn comparisons to Meta’s Muse, which has attracted more than ten million users who set it up.
Meta’s own figures, shared by Mark Zuckerberg during an earnings call before the Ant launch, point to shopping as the leading behaviour. A quarter or more of Muse users have purchased through the agent, with typical orders above two hundred dollars. Transactions in the first week were strong enough that Meta and its payment partner Stripe had to raise credit limits temporarily.
Yet the two products face different underlying conditions, according to a two-day test of Lingguang 2.0 that also compared it with Qianwen, Muse, and Claude Duet. In the United States, online retail is spread across many independent websites, and Muse can reach stores through a cloud browser. In China, everyday spending and messaging are concentrated inside a handful of super apps whose data and payment flows stay separate from one another.
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