Ant Digital launches Agentar 2.0 — an 'agent factory' with 200 pre-built digital experts

Ant Digital, the technology arm of the Ant Group, released Agentar 2.0 on Sunday at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai — a platform the company calls a “commercial agent super factory.” The pitch is simple: instead of asking enterprises to build AI agents from scratch, give them a catalog of pre-assembled ones.

The platform ships with 200 pre-built role-based digital expert templates and hundreds of subscribable Skills-level agent tools that work out of the box. The idea is that a company can pull together a team of specialized AI agents — for finance, supply chain, legal, HR — without writing custom integration code for each one.

Yan Ying, Ant Digital’s CTO, laid out the four problems she sees holding back enterprise AI adoption:

“First, models are powerful but can’t be deployed into real workflows. Second, there are plenty of tools, but they don’t connect the last mile. Third, companies don’t want spare parts — they want a working vehicle. Fourth, once you have multiple agents, nobody has set the rules for how they cooperate.”

Agentar 2.0 is Ant Digital’s answer to all four. Under the hood, it runs on the company’s self-developed LingDT base model, optimized for token efficiency — a direct way to keep inference costs down for enterprise customers. The Agentix operating system orchestrates agents across the full workflow. On the delivery side, the DTMaaS platform lets enterprises plug in agents without custom engineering.

Each agent gets a blockchain-based trusted identity, which means every decision, collaboration step, and fund transfer gets logged on-chain. That matters in regulated industries like finance, where audit trails aren’t optional.

To make the concept concrete: Ant Digital described a use case where a新能源 (new energy) company building an overseas factory simply sets a high-level goal. From there, hundreds of agents covering strategy, finance, supply chain, legal, and ESG execute the entire process autonomously.

“For the first time, enterprises truly have an AI workforce that works around the clock, and an agent factory that scales collaboration,” Yan said.

The platform has already deployed over 300 agents in the financial sector, and Ant Digital is expanding into energy, mobility, and retail. The shift from finance into other verticals suggests the company sees a larger opportunity beyond its core payments business — one where AI agents become a product category of their own.