Just six days after its debut on November 18, 2025, Ant Group's LingGuang is already buzzing with over 2 million downloads—proving China's first multimodal AI assistant is no flash in the pan. Interestingly, and most likely a coincidence, Google released its multimodal Gemini 3 Pro on the same day, just a few hours later.
Ant Group's LingGuang is open to the public and completely free at launch. Anyone who wants to give it a try can download it from the Apple App Store or through its website www.lingguang.com. (Note: Requires either an Apple ID or a +86 Chinese mobile number for registration)
This clever chap chats with you via code-driven magic, blending language, images, voice, and data into fun, functional outputs like 3D models, animations, charts, interactive maps, and even flash programs.
Built around three core features, it makes tackling tough topics feel like a breeze:
Fast Research: Toss in a keyword or question, and watch LingGuang whip up dynamic visuals that pop. It's best for boiling down complex and lengthy concepts into eye-catching multimedia descriptions. For example, with a simple prompt, LingGuang produced a multimedia answer on how airplanes generate thrust in just 30 seconds. Imagine what teachers and students could do with it in science classes!
Build Flash Programs: No coding skills? No problem! Describe what you need, and LingGuang will write the code and run it right in your chat. For example, next time you feel like hitting the gym, a prompt is all it takes to build a workout planner in seconds. It's like having a genie programmer in your pocket, making building something just a few clicks away.
AGI Camera: Snap a photo or video, and this smart eye analyzes scenes in real-time, dishing out insights or letting you edit/generate new content with simple prompts. Perfect for on-the-go discoveries. With this function, you can become a coffee holiday cup expert in 15 seconds!
Essentially, LingGuang has all the functionalities of Gemini 3 Pro. Sure, the animated charts and design of animations could be more slick, and sometimes the app still shows its thinking process, and some of the animations are in Chinese. But remember, this is LingGuang 1.0 v.s. Gemini 3.0 Pro. With the speed of product iterations at tech firms like Ant, improvements are expected in no time.
At its heart, LingGuang smartly breaks down your tasks into bite-sized tasks, juggling them across modalities for clean, logical results in a minimalist vibe. As Ant Group's CTO He Zhengyu quips, it's like gifting everyone a personal AI developer in their pocket—coding, visualizing, and simplifying the complex with ease.
The launch of Ant Group's LingGuang came just a few weeks after other Chinese AI models like Qwen and DeepSeek beat western rivals during an AI investment contest in October 2025. With the speed of AI innovation and applications in China, the sky's the limit for what other magic the country's AI industry will bring to the table in the coming 2026.
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