GeekPark tests Ant Group's Lingguang 2.0 personal AI assistant

On October 21, Meta disclosed key figures for its personal agent Muse at an earnings call: more than 10 million people had set up Muse, shopping was its most common use, more than a quarter of users were buying things through it with an average order value above $200, and volume in its first week exceeded expectations, forcing Meta to temporarily raise credit limits together with payments partner Stripe. Six days later, on October 27, Ant Group released Lingguang 2.0, repositioning it from "build a small app from natural language in 30 seconds" to "a personal AI assistant that actually manages things for you." The official slogan was framed in three short phrases, roughly "remembers, keeps watch, gets things done." The product connected to Alipay bills, DingTalk, Feishu, and Mijia so the assistant could handle everyday tasks, positioning it as a Chinese counterpart to Muse.

On November 1, GeekPark published the results of a two-day hands-on test of Lingguang 2.0, alongside a comparison with Qwen, Muse, and Claude Duet. In testing, Lingguang 2.0 could read Alipay bills and flag automatic renewals, and it could also read group chats and contacts, but under security policies actions such as sending messages on a user's behalf were blocked. The article argued that the two products face very different conditions: U.S. e-commerce is spread across many independent websites, which lets Muse reach stores through a cloud browser, whereas everyday consumption and communication in China are concentrated inside a few super-apps with separate data and transaction pipelines. Cross-platform permissions, responsibility allocation, and commercial revenue sharing were described as the real bottlenecks. No new product changes or additional timelines have been reported since the test.