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Ant Afu and Alipay AI payment were selected as the "Times" global best inventions of the year. On the evening of October 15th, Beijing time, the American "Time" magazine announced the list of the "World's Best Inventions" in 2026. Ant Group's health AI application "Ant Afu" and Alipay AI payment were both selected. Among them, Ant Afu is the only Chinese AI application selected this year, and DeepSeek was on the list last year. Picture: Ant Afu was selected as the "Times" annual best invention. The "Time" annual best invention list was founded in 2000 and is hailed by the industry as a global benchmark for scientific and technological innovation. Every year, global breakthrough inventions and innovations are selected and evaluated based on multiple key factors such as originality, effectiveness, and influence, covering many fields such as artificial intelligence and medical health. This year, Apple iPhone Duo, Anthropic Claude Code and other products are also listed as annual benchmarks. Last year, Chinese benchmark companies such as DeepSeek and Yushu Technology were selected. Among them, DeepSeek R1 was evaluated by Time as "comparable to the 'gunshot' in the field of artificial intelligence in the world." This year, two AI-native products of Ant Group were selected, marking that Chinese companies have once again taken the world's leading innovation path in the AI ​​era in the fields of health and payment. Alipay AI payment is the first AI-native payment service launched by Alipay in China. "Times" commented on the significance of its selection with "When AI Goes Shopping": AI is moving from information interaction to consumer transactions, and a new business era is opening. As for Ant Afu, "Times" believes that Ant Afu "makes professional medical and health services more inclusive." Public data shows that Ant Afu App has 150 million users and nearly 20 million health consultations in a single day. It is the health AI App with the largest user base in the world, connecting 5,000 hospitals and 300,000 real doctors. At present, medical health is becoming a key track for global AI deployment. Ant Afu connects the medical link and intelligent hardware, becoming the AI ​​application with the most complete service form and the most systematic ecological collaboration among AI applications. In contrast, ChatGPT Health, launched by OpenAI in January 2026, is also focusing on health services this year, but it is still at the level of health question and answer and device linking, and has not yet opened up the real medical link. Ma Defu, deputy director of Peking University School of Public Health, believes that my country is currently building a balanced, inclusive, high-quality and efficient "Healthy China". The development of health AI such as Ant Afu will help residents build health management capabilities and disease prevention and control capabilities, and promote the continued and steady improvement of major health indicators. The linkage and collaboration between AI and medical services will also help improve medical services.