Ant Group discloses 150M users for its health AI app Ant Afu and launches academician AI avatars at the Bund Summit

At the September 10 Bund Summit in Shanghai, Ant Group said its health AI app Ant Afu (蚂蚁阿福) passed 150 million users and handles nearly 20 million health consultations a day. A year ago it was the AQ mini program inside Alipay; it now runs as a standalone app, mini program, and hardware. The company also introduced academician AI avatars aimed at making its health advice more professionally credible.

Ant Group has put more than RMB 10 billion (over $1.4 billion) into its health business group, including the Haodf (好大夫在线) acquisition, R&D, hardware subsidies, and traffic spending. The report attributes much of the growth to Spring Festival Gala exposure, heavily subsidized body-fat scales, and third-party traffic, and says 2.75 million people joined a weight-loss program that lost a combined 5 million jin.

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