On April 26, it was reported that Alipay tested a new service AI product on its home page. Different from other native AI applications that focus on chat and communication, Alipay Smart Assistant focuses on life affairs and is built into Alipay App. Through AI technology, it can provide users with more than 30 services in travel, health, government affairs and other scenarios.
It is understood that the product is still in the grayscale testing stage and the testing scope will be gradually opened. Users invited to test can use it from the entrance of the Smart Assistant by pulling down on the home page of Alipay or clicking the+sign in the upper right corner.
Through experience, it is found that Alipay Smart Assistants can quickly provide information through the user's service instructions, and directly connect to various services in the Alipay ecosystem with one click, playing the role of "App Smart Navigation". For example, for travel destinations, AI assistants can not only recommend tourist attractions, but also search for local cuisine, performances, cinemas, camping sites, and more.
According to public data, after 20 years of development, Alipay has gradually become an open platform for digital life with more than 1 billion users and 80 million business institutions from a payment tool. At the same time, Alipay has also become a gathering place for multiple vertical groups, with 600 million users using Alipay for medical treatment, 500 million users using Alipay for daily travel, and one in every two people using Alipay for business.
It is reported that Alipay intelligent assistant is developed based on the ant lark model. In recent years, as the parent company of Alipay, Ant Group has independently developed the Ant Bailing big model (information) model. It has also polished the big model service capability with both performance and reliability in the fields of life services, health care, finance, remote sensing, etc., and has successively launched a number of products and industry solutions such as financial business assistant "support small help", digital human platform "Holy Land", "AI medical assistant", "AI government assistant", etc.