Ant Group released Lingguang 2.0, advancing its AI assistant from passive responses to proactive task management. The version upgrades cross-session memory, long-horizon task scheduling, and tool connections, allowing tasks to continue running after the user exits the conversation, and has integrated ecosystem services such as Alipay, DingTalk, and Feishu.
On October 15, Time magazine unveiled its 2026 Best Inventions list, featuring Alipay AI Payment and Ant Aifu, a health AI app from Ant Group. Alipay AI Payment is the only payment service on the list, with over 100 million users and 300 million transactions; Ant Aifu is the only Chinese AI app selected this year.
During China Cybersecurity Week, Ant AI Safety Lab released SingProbe, an endogenous safety guardrail for large language models that integrates safety detection into the generation process and outputs risk alerts while the model generates. It also released the SingStreamBench benchmark and explored a medical application, SingProbe-Med. SingProbe has been adapted to 29 mainstream open-source LLMs, and its code, models, and benchmark are open-sourced.
Ant Group CEO Han Xinyi said AI payments are not the final step but the trusted commitment engine for agent commerce. Alipay announced its AI payments are moving from 'payable' to 'trustworthy,' introducing an AI wallet agent, Vibe Pay, Skill Pay and Machine Pay, along with new scenarios such as AI recurring purchases, and applying the APASS trust infrastructure.
On September 11, 2026, Ant Group unveiled APASS at the AI Payment Forum of the 2026 Inclusion·Bund Summit. Built on the Know Your Agent concept, APASS establishes two trust chains for identity and behavior, providing identity registration, continuous verification, intent security and trusted attestation. It has been integrated with over 1 million agents, 110,000 of which are active, covering 442 service providers.
At the Outer Bund Summit on September 11, 2026, Ant Group's chief security officer Chen Liang said that security and trustworthiness are prerequisites for the large-scale application of AI. Ant is extending its security capabilities to the agent internet era. Wan Xiaofei, head of terminal security, introduced the rebranding of GPASS to "Lingying" and GOS to "Lingying AOS," as well as the launch of the ASL protocol, which has been deployed in scenarios including 1688.