November 22 news: Ant Lingguang has exceeded 1 million downloads within 4 days of its launch, climbing to the sixth position on the App Store's free app chart in China. Lingguang's first million downloads came faster than global mainstream AI products such as ChatGPT, Sora2, and DeepSeek, becoming the most outstanding general AI assistant by the end of 2025. China's AI once again demonstrates global speed.
Lingguang is a multi-modal general AI assistant launched by Ant Group, with three initial features: "Lingguang Dialogue," "Lingguang Quick Apps," and "Lingguang Vision." Lingguang won users' favor with its "everyone can quickly build applications" feature, which became very popular right from the start. According to reports, within just 4 days of its launch, Lingguang has already expanded its capacity 8 times, focusing on ensuring the "Lingguang Quick Apps" function.
According to reports, Lingguang has pioneered the ability to generate small applications in 30 seconds using natural language on mobile devices, and these apps are editable, interactive, and shareable. It is also the first AI assistant in the industry to generate full-code multi-modal content, supporting output of 3D, audio/video, charts, animations, maps, and other multi-modal information. The conversations are more vivid, communication is more efficient, and there is a strong sense of aesthetic information.
The popularity of Lingguang has far exceeded expectations. On the first day of its release, it exceeded 200,000 downloads, and by the fourth day, it reached 1 million downloads, climbing to the sixth position on the App Store's free app chart in China and the first position on the App Store's free tools chart in China. Its popularity continues to rise, making it the most outstanding general AI assistant at the end of 2025.
This growth rate has surpassed several globally popular AI applications. According to data from the mobile application analysis firm Appfigures, ChatGPT had 606,000 downloads in its first week, while Sora2 took 5 days to reach 1 million. Lingguang compressed this process to 4 days.
This week, the landscape of the domestic AI application market is quietly changing. With Alibaba Qwen launching on the 17th and Ant Lingguang launching on the 18th, the top 6 positions on the App Store's free app chart in China were taken by Alibaba-affiliated apps, breaking the previous dominance of ByteDance. As of the 21st, Alibaba Qwen and Ant Lingguang ranked fourth and sixth on the chart, respectively.
