Ant group's Lingguang AI assistant surpasses 20 million users, demonstrating significant task management capabilities

Ant Group has reported that its AI assistant, Lingguang, has surpassed 20 million users. Since the launch of Lingguang 2.0 on October 27, the assistant has managed over 1.16 million tasks and executed more than 3.6 million operations within its first week. Lingguang 2.0 introduces a significant advancement by shifting the starting point of AI intervention. Instead of merely executing user-prompted requests, the updated version can proactively identify potential needs by integrating with connected services and information, initiating analysis, monitoring, and timely alerts when user attention is required. This transforms the AI from a reactive tool into a continuous management assistant. Furthermore, Lingguang 2.0 integrates Ant's APASS, which serves as a unified infrastructure for account and security management across various cross-agent, cross-device, and cross-application scenarios. APASS incorporates identity verification, intent security, and privacy protection into the agent execution flow, allowing agents to operate without direct access to authorization keys via mechanisms like delegated key management. Users retain full control to monitor, modify, or revoke authorizations at any time.