Ant Group has started rolling out LingGuang 2.0 in China, upgrading its consumer artificial intelligence assistant with cross-session memory, long-running task management and connections to services including Alipay, email and smart-home platforms.
The Hangzhou-based company said on October 27 that the release is available through iOS, Android and the LingGuang website. The update moves the assistant beyond single-turn requests by allowing it to monitor tasks over time and notify users when conditions change, subject to explicit authorization.
From one-off prompts to continuing tasks
LingGuang 2.0 can run tasks on independent cloud instances after a conversation ends, according to materials Ant Group sent to TNGlobal. The company said its upgrades cover cross-session memory, long-horizon scheduling and tool calling.
Examples provided by Ant include checking Alipay spending records for recurring subscriptions, monitoring flight and hotel prices after bookings, tracking family dates and vehicle inspections, and coordinating follow-up actions across connected services. The assistant can also invoke Model Context Protocol and command-line tools in open environments.
Ant said the initial integrations include Alipay billing, membership and travel services as well as email, DingTalk, Lark and Xiaomi’s Mi Home platform. Those connections give LingGuang access to a wider set of information and actions than a stand-alone chatbot, but they also make user authorization and data handling central to the product’s operation.
The rollout follows an October 12 TechNode report that Ant was testing a LingGuang version with long-term memory and proactive task execution. That report said a broader release was planned for later in the month.
Ant adds account and permission controls
Ant Group said LingGuang 2.0 uses APASS, its account and security-management service for agents, devices, applications and services. The company said APASS separates authorization keys from the agent and places the keys in escrow so tasks can be executed without exposing credentials directly to the assistant.
Users can review, change or revoke authorizations, according to Ant. The company also said APASS applies identity authentication, intent-safety checks and privacy controls during agent execution. These are company descriptions, and Ant did not provide independent security assessments, audit results or technical performance data with the release.
The Google Play listing for LingGuang says the application may collect location, personal information and four other categories of data. The listing also says data is encrypted in transit and users can request deletion; Google notes that these disclosures are provided by the developer.
Ant did not specify whether proactive monitoring is enabled by default, how long cross-session memories are retained, where those records are stored or which data categories each integration can access. It also did not disclose task-completion error rates or describe how the assistant handles conflicting instructions across connected services. Those details will matter as the product moves from offering suggestions to initiating and following through on actions.
LingGuang expands Ant’s consumer AI push
Ant launched LingGuang in November 2025 as a multimodal assistant capable of returning code-driven outputs such as small applications, charts, animations, interactive maps and other visual content. Ant said the app reached two million downloads during its first six days, although that figure is company-supplied and the release did not provide a current active-user count.
The company’s technology overview describes LingGuang as one part of a broader AI portfolio spanning foundation models, agent-development infrastructure and applications in financial services, health care and everyday consumer services.
LingGuang 2.0 extends that strategy from content generation toward persistent assistance across connected applications.
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