{"id":313672,"date":"2026-02-23T22:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/313672\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T22:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:15:11","slug":"ants-aq-health-app-breaks-through-100-million-users-amid-holiday-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/313672\/","title":{"rendered":"Ant\u2019s AQ health app breaks through 100 million users amid holiday surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Ant Group\u2019s artificial intelligence health app AQ surpassed 100 million users during the Lunar New Year holiday, the company said, underlining growing momentum in China\u2019s AI-driven healthcare sector.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The app topped China\u2019s Apple App Store overall download rankings for several consecutive days over the holiday period, according to Ant Group.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Ant Group attributed the surge in part to younger, tech-savvy consumers who, after returning home for Lunar New Year gatherings, shared the app with their families to help monitor their well-being, particularly elderly parents and grandparents.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Ant Group is an affiliate of Alibaba Group Holding, which owns the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">AQ also gained visibility through a marketing push tied to this year\u2019s Spring Festival Gala, one of the world\u2019s most-watched television broadcasts, in which the app featured in a comedy skit.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Adoption broadened beyond China\u2019s largest cities, with third-tier cities and below accounting for 52 per cent of new users during the holiday, the company said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">AQ\u2019s most popular features include AI-powered health consultations, skin-condition analysis and virtual medical advice, alongside personalised wellness tracking and digital health records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ant Group\u2019s artificial intelligence health app AQ surpassed 100 million users during the Lunar New Year holiday, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[576,72,114,113,103,397,396,240,61,60,166,43,387,10178,850,80,90,386],"class_list":{"0":"post-313672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-health-care","14":"tag-healthcare","15":"tag-hong-kong","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-lifestyle","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-opinion","21":"tag-south-china-morning-post","22":"tag-sport","23":"tag-technology","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}