Ant Digital Technology (antdigital.com), the technology arm of Ant Group (antgroup.com), plays a central role in the group’s digital human initiatives, positioning itself as a provider of enterprise-grade virtual human infrastructure. Its flagship product is the Ant Lingjing Digital Human Platform, which supports full-stack development and deployment of digital humans—from 3D modeling and animation to interaction and rendering. The platform enables three primary formats of virtual beings: interactive digital humans, content broadcasting avatars, and livestreaming virtual hosts. These offerings are designed for integration into business operations such as intelligent customer service, marketing, education, and event hosting.
Ant Group’s technology has powered notable public-facing applications. For example, during the annual “Two Sessions”, Ant’s platform supported the development and deployment of AI news anchors for CCTV Finance, delivering real-time coverage with a digital human interface. The platform also enabled immersive historical storytelling through digital avatars in exhibitions, such as Jiefang Daily’s “From Yan’an to Shanghai” event, where digital guides narrated China's revolutionary history. These applications reflect a focus on combining cultural content with advanced interactive media.
On the technical side, Ant Digital emphasizes multimodal interaction, including voice, text, and video input, and provides development APIs and toolkits for enterprise clients. The company also engages in open-source development, contributing projects such as EchoMimicV2, a digital human generation model capable of creating expressive speaking avatars from a single image, a gesture video, and audio input. EchoMimicV2 enables real-time synthesis of full upper-body motion synchronized with speech, and is available on GitHub through Ant Group’s official account.
Ant Group’s broader digital strategy incorporates digital humans into healthcare, notably through AI-powered applications featuring avatars of over 200 licensed Chinese doctors, allowing patients to interact with medical avatars for diagnosis, triage, and information services. This reflects a growing emphasis on trustworthy AI, personalization, and user engagement in regulated industries. Collectively, Ant Group and Ant Digital Technology’s digital human initiatives span enterprise services, public media, healthcare, and AI research, combining real-time interactivity, synthetic media generation, and enterprise integration. Their work positions them as a significant player in China’s digital human and intelligent agent ecosystem.