Ant Group officially launched the AI health app "AQ" on June 26, offering more than 100 AI functions such as health education, medical consultation, and report interpretation. It connects over 5,000 hospitals nationwide, nearly one million doctors, and nearly 200 AI avatars of renowned doctors. The app is now available on major app stores.
Ha Xinyi, CEO of Ant Group, said, "Ant hopes that AQ can provide everyone with a trustworthy health manager, becoming a daily health assistant and an accessible healthcare helper."
Intelligent Questioning and Multimodal Recognition Solve Medical Challenges
Facing the sub-health issues of nearly 75% of Chinese people and over 200 million online health searches per day, AQ is built on Ant's medical large model. It can mimic real doctors to ask follow-up questions, guiding users to accurately describe their symptoms. Users can also take photos to consult about complex reports or skin problems. AQ supports billion-parameter visual language recognition, accurately identifying 50 common skin diseases.
Nearly 200 top-tier doctors from China's Academy of Engineering, including Academician Liao Wanqing and Academician Wang Jun, have already launched their "AI avatars" on AQ, answering users' questions 24 hours a day, seven days a week. To make it easier for the elderly to use, AQ also provides voice call functions.
Technical Strengths Recognized by Authorities
The medical large model behind AQ has learned over 10 trillion tokens of professional medical data, possessing "medical thinking" reasoning and multimodal interaction capabilities. It has achieved industry-leading levels in authoritative evaluations such as HealthBench and MedBench, and was the first in the industry to pass the dual-field trusted assessment of medical and health large models by the China Information Communication Institute.
Each doctor agent must undergo strict training and evaluation by the doctor team before going live. More than 10 top-tier tertiary hospitals across the country have formed a professional advisory group, with leaders from different disciplines deeply involved in AQ's specialized question-and-answer evaluation work.
Ma Hongjing, vice president of Hangzhou No. 7 People's Hospital, said that previously he could only see 600 patients per month, but now through the "AI avatar," he can serve up to 110,000 patients a day, expanding his service range from within the province to across the country.
AQ is also integrated with health devices from companies like Yu Yue and Sanu, as well as wearable devices from vivo, Huawei, and Apple, providing personalized health management services. Chen Huashan, an expert from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes that AQ helps bridge the gap in medical resources and promotes accessible healthcare.
