Inside Ant Group's play at WAIC-style expo: AI and hardware vendors settle into new division of labor
智东西 · wechat · 2026-09-11
A detailed walkthrough of the 2026 Bund Summit shows AI and hardware vendors settling into a clear division of labor, with Ant Group as the platform builder: the Aifu health assistant (photo-based nutrition analysis), Abao agent spanning 5 phone brands and 16 automakers, Ant's Lingbo robot brain adapting to 20+ robot form factors across service/logistics/industrial tasks, and an agent factory with 200+ prebuilt skill templates covering 300+ business scenarios.
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