{"id":186827,"date":"2025-12-16T17:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/186827\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T17:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:09:11","slug":"chinese-fintech-giant-ant-upgrades-ai-health-app-to-tap-booming-eldercare-wellness-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/186827\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese fintech giant Ant upgrades AI health app to tap booming eldercare, wellness demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chinese fintech giant Ant Group has pressed ahead with its strategic move into the fast-growing healthcare sector with a major upgrade to its artificial intelligence health app AQ, positioning the platform to work like a fitness companion or a family doctor.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The new features included integration of records from smart devices made by Apple, Huawei and Omron, among others, as well as the creation of health profiles for family members, the company announced on Monday. Ant is the fintech affiliate of Alibaba Group Holding, owner of the Post.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">AQ also introduced tools such as health goal setting and smart reminders, enabling it to function like a personal trainer that could \u201ccreate tailored plans and send daily reminders to help users stay on track\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">With the new \u201ccompanion\u201d features, the existing question-and-answer function would become \u201cmore accurate and personalised\u201d as it had a more comprehensive view of a user\u2019s well-being, Ant said. The Q&amp;A channel, handling both text and image consultations, now answered more than 5 million questions every day, it added.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"It is estimated that by around 2035, the population aged 60 and above in mainland China will exceed 400 million. Photo: Xinhua\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/aaedefe4-35fb-41eb-bf9f-e9117cad759d_859adcac.jpg\" title=\"It is estimated that by around 2035, the population aged 60 and above in mainland China will exceed 400 million. Photo: Xinhua\"\/>It is estimated that by around 2035, the population aged 60 and above in mainland China will exceed 400 million. Photo: Xinhua<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The company said AQ was not intended to provide medical diagnoses or replace professional doctors. The platform was designed to \u201chelp users address common, everyday health questions and support healthy habit formation\u201d, said Zhang Junjie, vice-president for health business at Ant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese fintech giant Ant Group has pressed ahead with its strategic move into the fast-growing healthcare sector with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[6116,365,619,55421,363,1646,134,5568,527,111,139,69,4847,615],"class_list":{"0":"post-186827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-agent","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-alibaba","11":"tag-ant","12":"tag-artificial-intelligence","13":"tag-fintech","14":"tag-health","15":"tag-health-tech","16":"tag-healthcare","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-silver-economy","21":"tag-tencent"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}