What Is Ant Group — and Why Is It Building AI Models?
Ant Group runs Alipay and grew out of Alibaba. Here's what it actually does, why it's tied to Alibaba, and why a payments company now builds its own AI models.
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Ant Group is the Chinese fintech giant behind Alipay and an Alibaba affiliate that has become a serious builder of AI models. It develops the open-weight Ling and Bailing model families, competing on efficiency with far larger systems, and is pushing AI into payments, finance, and agent tooling. This hub follows Ant Group’s models, releases, and AI strategy.
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Ant Group Unveils Ling-3.0-Flash, an Efficient AI Model for Agents
Ant Group's Ling-3.0-Flash matches models several times its size on reasoning and coding benchmarks using just 5.1 billion active parameters, the company says.
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