Ant Group's Medical AI Platform Wins Top Honor at 2025 WAIC
Ant Group's Medical AI Platform Wins SAIL Award at 2025 WAIC
At the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, Ant Group's "AI-Driven Full-Process Healthcare Management Platform" was honored with the conference's highest distinction - the SAIL Award (Superior AI Leader). The fintech giant was selected among the top 30 global AI innovations, alongside industry leaders like Xiaomi and iFLYTEK.
About the SAIL Award
The Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Leadership Award, established in 2018, recognizes groundbreaking technological advancements with real-world impact. Judged by a panel including Chinese Academy of Sciences院士 and international scholars, it represents one of AI's most authoritative accolades.
Platform Capabilities
Ant's solution features three core technical pillars:
- Medical Q&A systems for patient education
- Diagnostic support tools for healthcare providers
- Multimodal interaction combining text, image, and data analysis
The platform currently serves:
- 800+ million users through Ant Health app AQ
- Thousands of medical institutions across China
Technical Breakthroughs
The award follows significant upgrades to Ant's proprietary medical large language model, which recently achieved:
- 98.9/100 on MedBench self-evaluation (medical knowledge)
- 94.7/100 on independent assessment
- Top performance in OpenAI's HealthBench for:
- Complex medical reasoning
- Consensus alignment with clinical guidelines
The team's research paper on ADMIRE architecture - a novel approach to medical document understanding - was accepted at KDD 2025, setting new benchmarks on four open datasets.
Strategic Vision
Since entering healthcare AI in 2014, Ant has invested heavily in developing "explainable, trustworthy" medical AI. The June 2025 launch of standalone app AQ marks their commitment to family-centric healthcare solutions.
Key Points:
✅ Industry Recognition: SAIL Award validates Ant's position as medical AI leader 🏥 Scale of Impact: Platform serves China's entire healthcare ecosystem 🔬 Technical Edge: Upgraded multimodal capabilities outperform competitors 📈 Research Leadership: KDD-accepted ADMIRE architecture advances medical document analysis
