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Morning Brief · October 28th 2026
Ant Group's LingGuang 2.0 keeps working after the chat ends
Ant Group launched LingGuang 2.0 on Tuesday, an assistant with persistent memory that keeps managing tasks once a user leaves the conversation. With permission it can track flight and hotel prices after booking, find forgotten subscriptions in Alipay bills and turn school notices in DingTalk groups into tasks.
It connects to Alipay, DingTalk, Feishu, email and Xiaomi's Mijia home platform, and supports outside tools through . The difference from Western assistants is reach: Ant controls the payments app where the bills already are. SourcesB
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- BAnt launches LingGuang 2.0 (TechNode)technode.com
This story ran in the Morning Brief of October 28th 2026.