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
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
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
Ant Group is an affiliate of Alibaba Group Holding, which owns the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n
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
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
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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2300,138,607,219,134,527,4431,263,111,43,139,69,2114,14095,2022,145,3040,377],"class_list":["post-298576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-asia","tag-business","tag-china","tag-economy","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-hong-kong","tag-lifestyle","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-opinion","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-sport","tag-technology","tag-us","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298576","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=298576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}