Ant Group’s AI product Lingguang opens limited beta, benchmarked against Meta Muse

The significance here is less about a single product and more about how quickly Chinese platform giants are now positioning against Meta's agent ambitions, with Ant reportedly iterating for roughly six months before a limited beta. If a full public rollout does land this month, it would put a major payments-adjacent player into consumer agents at near-parallel timing with Meta, which matters for anyone tracking distribution and user data in that space. Whether Lingguang's agent capabilities actually match the Muse benchmark, rather than just the framing, is the open question.