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Ant Group takes 28% stake in Boohee as AI health race heats up

Yangtzeer observers2026-07-082026-07-0805 mins

The investment marks a broader expansion of Ant’s healthcare strategy — moving beyond access to medical services and into everyday health management.

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Robbyant boosts robot vision with new spatial perception models

Yangtzeer observers2026-07-0704 mins

Robots have long struggled with visual perception in challenging environments involving transparent glass, reflective surfaces, small objects and complex lighting conditions.

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Ant Group adds Xpeng’s He Xiaopeng to board in governance overhaul

Yangtzeer observers2026-06-222026-06-2305 mins

The appointment of He is particularly notable given his long-standing ties to Alibaba.

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Alipay launches AI-first app redesign with new assistant ‘Ah Bao’

Yangtzeer observers2026-06-162026-06-1605 mins

Instead of searching for services manually, users can ask the assistant to perform tasks or surface the relevant service directly.

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Ant Group upgrades skin-check AI with optional doctor review

Yangtzeer observers2026-06-152026-06-1504 mins

The company said the system is the first in China to deploy a structured “AI answer plus doctor verification” collaboration model in a consumer-facing application.

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Ant tests AI-powered Alipay as super apps race toward agent era

Yangtzeer observers2026-06-152026-06-1604 mins

The overhaul is being viewed as one of the most significant changes in Alipay’s history.

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Alibaba-backed world model benchmark places Ant ahead of Nvidia

Yangtzeer observers2026-06-112026-06-1103 mins

WorldOlympiad aims to address a key challenge in the fast-growing field of world models: the lack of unified evaluation standards.

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Ant Group quietly enters AI glasses market with Willit launch

Yangtzeer observers2026-05-292026-05-2903 mins

Willit comes in sunglasses and photochromic versions. The sunglasses model has already sold more than 1,000 units on Taobao, according to the product page.

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Ant Group credit unit targets surge in solo founders with AI tools

Yangtzeer observers2026-05-282026-05-2704 mins

According to platform data, nearly 5.7 million such firms have actively registered and built credit profiles on Sesame Enterprise Credit, up 42% from a year earlier.

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Alipay says AI agent payments hit 300 million transactions

Yangtzeer observers2026-05-262026-05-2604 mins

The company announced the milestone on May 26 at its AI payment ecosystem conference, describing the platform as the world’s first large-scale commercial AI-native payment infrastructure.

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