Ant Group's Medical AI Platform Wins Prestigious SAIL Award
Ant Group's Medical AI Platform Wins Top Honor at WAIC 2025
At the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, Ant Group's "AI-Driven Full-Process Healthcare Management Platform" was awarded the prestigious SAIL Award (Superior Achievement in Artificial Intelligence Leadership), recognizing it among the top 30 most innovative AI projects globally. This marks a significant milestone for China's fintech giant as it expands into healthcare technology.
About the SAIL Award
The SAIL Award, established in 2018, is considered the "Nobel Prize of AI" in China. It honors projects demonstrating directional technological breakthroughs and application innovations in artificial intelligence. The judging panel comprises academicians from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and internationally renowned scholars, ensuring its rigorous standards and global credibility.
Platform Capabilities and Reach
Ant Group's winning platform currently serves:
- 800+ million users through the Ant Health app AQ
- Thousands of medical institutions across China
The system is built on three core technical pillars:
- Medical Q&A and education
- Disease diagnosis and treatment support
- Multimodal medical data processing
This creates a comprehensive service ecosystem connecting healthcare institutions, medical professionals, and patients.
Breakthroughs in Medical AI Technology
The platform's backbone is Ant Group's proprietary medical large language model, which recently received significant upgrades:
- Achieved 98.9/100 on MedBench self-evaluation
- Scored 94.7/100 in independent MedBench assessment
- Demonstrated superior performance in OpenAI's HealthBench evaluation for:
- Complex medical reasoning (+15% over benchmarks)
- Consensus alignment with medical standards (93% accuracy)
The research team also developed the novel ADMIRE architecture for medical document understanding, which set new benchmarks on four open datasets and was accepted at KDD 2025, a top-tier AI conference.
Strategic Expansion into Healthcare
Over its 11-year history, Ant Healthcare has progressively built its medical AI capabilities:
- 2023: Focused on developing "explainable, trustworthy, implementable" medical AI
- June 2024: Launched standalone Ant Health AQ application
The company aims to become a leader in applying AI to solve practical healthcare challenges while maintaining rigorous standards for accuracy and reliability.
Key Points:
✅ Won SAIL Award at WAIC 2025 (top 30 global AI projects) 🏥 Serves 800M+ users through integrated platform 🔬 Medical LLM achieves record scores on MedBench/HealthBench 📄 ADMIRE architecture advances medical document analysis 🌐 Expanding through standalone Ant Health AQ application