Over the past week, Ant Group has shocked the global technology market when it announced that LingGuang - a new generation "vibe coding" application launched on November 18 - surpassed 1 million downloads in just 4 days, faster than ChatGPT and Sora.
The heavy traffic forced the app creation feature from text descriptions to be temporarily suspended to stabilize the server. On the Chinese App Store, LingGuang climbed to No. 1 in the utility app category and No. 7 overall.
According to Ant Group, this milestone shows that LingGuang is becoming a notable factor in the global AI race, especially when “vibe coding” - the way to create software from natural language - is a sought-after trend.
In the US, Replit - the leading platform in this segment - reached annual revenue of 100 million USD in June, up sharply from 10 million USD at the end of 2024.
However, while Replit uses AI to generate code, LingGuang goes further by generating complete applications, turning each user into their own “AI programmer”.
LingGuang is built as a multi-modal assistant capable of creating 3D content, interactive maps, charts, audio, video , and even creating mini-apps in 30 seconds to a minute.
When users ask questions, LingGuang does not respond with simple text but “presents” the answer as a visual exhibition: from knowledge layering, 3D models to detailed descriptive graphics, making information reception clear and vivid.
This capability is based on a “full-code multimodal” platform, allowing the application to connect multiple agents to process images, render 3D models, create animations, and generate maps in real time.
LingGuang's biggest breakthrough is its Flash App feature. With just one sentence of description, the application can build a mini-app with a complete front-end and the ability to call AI models in the backend.
Users can request an “egg boiling time calculator” or a “car maintenance cost calculator” and LingGuang instantly creates an app with customized parameters according to their needs.
On average, users make six edits per app, far exceeding the engineering team's initial expectations. LingGuang Eye, the built-in AGI camera, also allows users to point their phone at objects for the app to annotate, summarize, or transform into images or videos on demand.
The system is the flagship product of Ant Group's artificial general intelligence (AGI) strategy. The project is overseen by Chief Technology Officer He Zhengyu, who earned his PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Ant Group has been accelerating its AI investments in recent times, from introducing the AQ medical assistant to supporting the Lingbo robot company and developing the Bai Ling model with a scale of trillions of parameters.
LingGuang's launch at the same time as Alibaba Cloud's Qwen application further excited the domestic AI market, especially when Jack Ma suddenly appeared at Ant Group's headquarters to show his support for the AI-first strategy.
He Zhengyu asserted that LingGuang and Qwen's simultaneous debut was just a "coincidence", and viewed them as "comrades" working towards AGI.
Based on the 2025 trend, Ant Group believes that AI will shift strongly to contextual productivity tools. LingGuang, with its philosophy of “simplifying the complex”, is expected to redefine the way users interact with AI by bringing application development into everyday conversations.
Possessing both a technological platform and the ability to deploy on a large scale shows that Ant Group is building a complete AI value chain from research to practical application.
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