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Alipay Chairman: Cryptocurrency as a Payment Medium Has Become One of the Exploratory Paths for AI Payments
As reported by Caixin, Han Xinyi, CEO of Ant Group and Chairman of Alipay, presented systematic insights on the global exploration paths for AI payments at the China Payment Clearing Forum. He stated that AI payments have basically coalesced into four exploration paths: The first category comprises payment technology and infrastructure platforms represented by Stripe. The second category consists of cryptocurrency enterprises such as Circle and Coinbase, which primarily rely on stablecoins and their wallet ecosystems. Using cryptocurrencies as payment instruments, they directly enable automated machine-to-machine payment scenarios. The third category features traditional payment networks represented by the two major card organizations (Visa and Mastercard). The fourth category comprises AI platform companies such as Google and OpenAI.
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Microsoft derives approximately 70% of its AI business revenue from OpenAI, with clients still highly concentrated in the tech industry
Microsoft's major AI business clients remain primarily concentrated among technology companies. In its most recent fiscal year, approximately 70% of its AI business revenue—amounting to $24.1 billion—came from OpenAI.Additionally, other key Azure AI clients include ByteDance, Meta, Adobe, Perplexity, Sierra, as well as Ant Group, Meituan, and Tencent. Among these, as of June this year, ByteDance's annualized spending on Microsoft's cloud platform is estimated to exceed $1 billion, while Meta spends several hundred million dollars annually.Although Microsoft has previously disclosed that its AI model marketplace has around 100,000 customers, the bulk of its revenue still comes from a small number of large tech and AI companies, which may indicate that AI has yet to achieve large-scale commercial adoption across the broader economy. (Bloomberg)
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ACE Robotics Chairman Wang Xiaogang: Embodied AI Is Expected to Experience Its "ChatGPT Moment" by the End of 2027
According to Reuters as cited by Decrypt, Wang Xiaogang, chairman of Chinese robotics startup ACE Robotics, stated that with advances in world models and improved capabilities for collecting real-world environment data, embodied AI is poised to experience a "ChatGPT moment" similar to that of large language models by the end of 2027. Wang pointed out that one of the main bottlenecks hindering the large-scale commercialization of robots remains a shortage of real-world training data. Across the industry, cumulative data over the past few years amounts to approximately 100,000 hours—far from enough to train embodied foundation models. ACE Robotics plans to collect tens of millions of hours of real-world environment data over the next two years and aims to deploy the corresponding technology to 1,000 stores within the coming year. Established in July 2025, ACE Robotics focuses on developing AI models for humanoid robots. With support from Ant Group and SenseTime, the company secured over $100 million in funding in the first half of 2026 and intends to fast-track its IPO as soon as conditions allow.
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蚂蚁发布 Ling 3.0 Flash 模型，Artificial Analysis 得分升至 38
蚂蚁集团发布开源推理模型 Ling 3.0 Flash，采用 124B 总参数、5B 激活参数的混合推理架构。该模型在 Artificial Analysis 智能指数上得分 38，较上代 Ling 2.6 Flash 提升 24 分，以更少激活参数追平 MiMo-V2.5 和 Qwen 3.6 27B。模型配置 262K 上下文窗口，API 定价每百万输入 token $0.075、输出 $0.22，采用 MIT 许可证开放。
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Ant Lingbo launches first funding round, plans to raise 1.5 billion yuan
According to LatePost, Lingbo Technology, an embodied AI company under Ant Group, has launched its first round of financing, planning to raise 1.5 billion yuan and aiming to complete the second round by the end of this year. The report pointed out that Lingbo has currently formed a relatively complete layout on the brain chain related to robot perception, understanding, and action, covering areas such as vision, depth, mapping, video, world models, VA, VLA, etc., and has therefore already attracted attention from multiple investment institutions prior to the financing launch.
Ant International announced it has completed approximately $1.2 billion in Series A financing, with Ant Group, Alibaba, and others participating in the investment.
According to The Paper, Ant International announced that it has completed its Series A funding round. Ant Group, along with some existing shareholders including Alibaba and multiple well-known international investment institutions, participated in this round. It is reported that the funding amount is approximately $1.2 billion, which will be used to expand global business, accelerate investment in frontier technologies such as AI, broaden inclusive fintech services such as cross-border payments and global accounts, and help global merchants achieve growth.
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Ant Group is testing an AI-powered version of Alipay, potentially upgrading the interaction model.
According to Jiemian News, Ant Group is internally testing an AI-powered version of Alipay. The new version may adopt a native AI interaction method and cover scenarios such as service acquisition and fund management. The product’s launch date has yet to be determined, and Ant Group has declined to comment.
Alatau City Hong Kong Roadshow Signs Six Agreements in One Day; ANT Digital Technology Partners with Solana Foundation
According to PrimeMinister.kz, during his visit to Hong Kong, Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister Kanat Bozumbayev met with Chief Executive John Lee to discuss expanding trade and economic cooperation as well as collaboration in financial technology innovation. The centerpiece of the visit was the “Alatau City China Roadshow” investment roundtable, which attracted participation from numerous leading Hong Kong-based investment funds, financial institutions, and technology enterprises. During the meeting, the Alatau City Administration signed six cooperation agreements and memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with multiple international enterprises, primarily covering the following areas: • ANT Digital Technologies, a subsidiary of Ant Group: exploring participation in Alatau City’s digital infrastructure development and deployment of advanced fintech solutions; • Solana Foundation: reaching agreement on collaboration in Web3 ecosystem development, blockchain talent cultivation, and support for tech startups; • Dasco Capital and Templewater: signing an MOU to jointly establish a private equity fund focused on investments in Kazakhstan and Central Asia, with Alatau City designated as a priority investment target. Additionally, the Kazakh delegation held meetings with senior executives from major Hong Kong investment and development firms, including Henderson Land Development, Far East Consortium, Sun Hung Kai Properties, and Boshi Fund. Alatau City is a new economic growth hub launched under the directive of Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. It operates under a special legal framework, drawing upon Hong Kong’s successful experience in investor protection and alignment with international regulatory standards.
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Ant International is considering raising $1 billion in financing, with a potential valuation exceeding $10 billion.
According to Bloomberg, Ant Group’s international business is considering raising approximately $1 billion in financing to accelerate growth and has solicited expressions of interest from potential investors, including existing shareholders General Atlantic and Silver Lake. Upon completion of this round, Ant International’s valuation could exceed $1 billion.
BitMart Will List Pharos (PROS)
According to an official announcement, BitMart will launch Pharos (PROS) on April 28 at 23:00 (UTC+8). The listing will open the PROS/USDT trading pair.Pharos is an inclusive Layer 1 public chain built for RealFi, integrating real-world assets, institutional capital, and decentralized finance into a programmable, borderless economy. It aims to make real asset finance accessible to everyone, bridging Web2 and Web3 to form a unified, transparent, and open digital financial ecosystem. Founded by core management and engineering teams from Ant Group, it adopts a DP4 deep parallel architecture (prototype tested at over 130,000+ TPS), supports dual virtual machine execution for EVM and WASM, and features built-in RWA tokenization and stablecoin infrastructure. It has received support from global traditional financial institutions such as Hack VC and Faction VC. The private mainnet officially launched on December 12, 2025.
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