Ant Group launches LingGuang 2.0, an assistant that remembers users and keeps working after the chat ends

Ant Group, the fintech company behind Alipay, has released a second version of its LingGuang assistant. Announced on October 27, LingGuang 2.0 is presented by the company as a proactive personal agent: instead of waiting for instructions, it is meant to spot needs, follow up on tasks and coordinate everyday matters over time.

Memory and long-running tasks

Ant attributes the change to upgrades in three areas: memory that persists across sessions, scheduling of long-horizon tasks and tool calling. Each user's LingGuang runs on its own cloud instance, which, according to the company, allows it to keep working on a task once a conversation is over and to react when new information or a status change appears. When it needs the user's attention, it sends an alert.

The examples Ant gives are practical. With permission, the assistant can review Alipay spending records, point out auto-renewing subscriptions a user may have forgotten and suggest ways to save. After a flight or hotel booking, it can watch prices and report a drop. TechNode, citing the Chinese outlet IT Home, adds that it can pull tasks out of school notices shared in DingTalk groups.

Integrations and security

Built-in connections include Alipay billing, membership and travel services, email, DingTalk, Lark (Feishu) and Xiaomi's Mi Home smart-home platform. In open environments it can also call external tools through MCP and command-line interfaces.

Because the agent acts on financial and personal data, Ant stresses access control. LingGuang 2.0 uses the company's APASS service, which manages accounts and security for agents, devices and applications. Ant says authorization keys are kept in escrow, separate from the agent, so tasks can run without the agent handling credentials directly, and users can review, change or revoke permissions at any time. These safeguards are described by the company and have not been independently assessed.

Context

The first LingGuang launched in November 2025 as a multimodal assistant able to produce small "Flash Apps" from a single prompt; Ant says it passed 2 million downloads in its first six days. Version 2.0 follows limited testing earlier in October and is rolling out in China on iOS, Android and LingGuang.com. Ant has not named the underlying models or shared user figures for the new release.