Ant Group announced the launch of three new AI products at the Bund Conference on September 5, 2024, including the independent AI application 'Zhixiangbao' for Alipay, aimed at providing services in travel, government affairs, healthcare, and financial management. Ant Group President Han Xinyi emphasized that the development of artificial intelligence is shifting from 'parameter competition' to 'application competition', stressing that Ant Group will continuously innovate AI applications to serve users with a focus on enhancing user experience. Zhixiangbao, as an independent AI application, will bring more convenience to users' lives.

At today's 2024 Bund Conference, Ant Group President Han Xinyi announced that the group will launch three new artificial intelligence products at this year's conference. These products are: the AI Life Manager 'Zhixiaobao', the AI Wealth Manager 'Maxicaicai', and an AI Health Manager that is still being named.

Ant Group has established a new company called 'Digital Mali' in Beijing, which is dedicated to applying artificial intelligence technology to enterprise services and promoting the development of the AI to B market. The establishment of Digital Mali marks Ant Group's further exploration into the field of artificial intelligence, aiming to provide intelligent services for enterprises through technological innovation, facilitating digital transformation and intelligent upgrades in business operations.

Ant Group, in collaboration with Xin京Bao and Beike Finance, has developed and launched a generative large-scale model product named "Beike Finance · Smart Guidance for ESG." This product aims to provide users with more accurate, comprehensive, and valuable analysis and interpretation of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance) reports of A-share listed companies. It can answer various user queries in real-time and offer in-depth analysis and summaries."Beike Finance · Smart Guida

Two AI anchors from CCTV Finance's new media have started working during the Two Sessions, able to answer questions in the fields of economy, industry, and tourism 24/7. The AI anchors are supported by the Ant Group Digital Human Platform, featuring high modeling accuracy, complete dynamic details, natural pronunciation, and high fidelity. The Ant Group Digital Human Platform provided technical support for the digital torchbearers relay activity during last year's Hangzhou Asian Games. In 2021, CCTV introduced an AI sign language anchor to provide year-round service for the hearing impaired. Zhu Guangquan has already 'interviewed' the AI sign language anchor with challenging jokes.

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["Ant Group has launched the 2 billion parameter multi-modal remote sensing foundational model SkySense","SkySense outperforms similar international products across 17 testing scenarios","SkySense can be used for terrain, crop observation, and interpretation","It has been applied in scenarios such as the Alipay Five Fortunes Festival large-scale AI interaction and Ant Group's digital healthcare projects"]

["Ant Group CodeFuse announces the open-source DevOps-ChatBot end-to-end AI intelligent assistant","DevOps-ChatBot is an open-source end-to-end intelligent AI assistant designed specifically for the entire lifecycle of software development","The project supports private deployment to ensure data security and high availability for specific tasks","By integrating technologies such as knowledge bases and knowledge graph enhancements, it ensures the accuracy and timeliness of generated content","The project also supports interactive code modification, compilation, and execution"]

Ant Group has open-sourced the full-chain causal learning system OpenASCE at NeurIPS. OpenASCE supports distributed causal discovery and causal effect estimation. OpenASCE is widely used in credit risk control, marketing optimization, and recommendation scenarios. OpenASCE includes over 20 industrial-grade causal learning algorithms and lowers the application threshold for causal technologies.

Ant Group's CodeFuse Plugin for Development Assistant has released a new version, adding support for Android Studio. The CodeFuse plugin is now compatible with 11 mainstream IDEs, including Visual Studio Code and IDEA. The new version optimizes the code completion accuracy for front-end languages such as JavaScript and TypeScript. New features include a 'Dev Assistant' product Q&A entry and a logout function. Developers can apply for testing qualifications on the official website.

Ant Group has released Kapacity V0.2, an intelligent cloud capacity technology tool that incorporates self-developed AI algorithms. It offers advantages in predictive elasticity scaling, allowing for proactive responses to traffic fluctuations. Kapacity uses a traffic-driven replica prediction algorithm and also provides support for custom metrics and workload dimension aggregation query capabilities.

The ModelCache architecture under Ant Group's CodeFuse includes the adapter, embedding, similarity, and data_manager modules. ModelCache can reduce the inference cost of large model applications and enhance user experience. Cache hits can reduce average latency by 10 times, with speed improvements of up to 14.5%. ModelCache will continue to optimize performance and accuracy, improving recall time.

Ant Group, in collaboration with Peking University, has released a benchmark for evaluating large language models in the DevOps field. This benchmark includes a total of 4850 multiple-choice questions across 8 categories such as planning, coding, building, testing, and releasing. The benchmark also provides detailed evaluations for AIOps tasks, showing that the score differences among various models are minimal.

Ant Group has released the 4bits quantized version of CodeFuse-CodeLlama-34B. The quantized model can be loaded on a single A10 or RTX4090. The quantized model achieves a performance of 73.8% on the Humaneval pass@1 metric. CodeFuse is Ant's self-developed large model for code generation, aimed at enhancing developers' efficiency by providing intelligent suggestions and real-time support.