Ant Group on October 12 opens Lingguang new version beta, targeting personal AI agents against Meta Muse

Ant Group's AI product Lingguang opened a limited beta of its new version on October 12, directly positioning it against the personal AI agent Muse that Meta shipped in September. The new direction took half a year of preparation and several rounds of iteration and is slated for full release later this month. The core upgrade moves Lingguang from a basic chat and application-generation assistant to an AI-native personal agent with long-term memory and the ability to push complex tasks forward proactively. It uses Skills and MCP to act across apps, including sending DingTalk messages and controlling smart-home devices. The beta scenarios target long-horizon, multi-variable tasks: tracking market swings for office workers, helping parents run DingTalk attendance, and rerouting trips on flight delays or scenic spot capacity caps. The release is a clear signal that Chinese internet majors are accelerating their push into proactive AI agents, taking the application layer toward full-process task management.