Ant Group's Split Financing Kicks Off: AI Takes the Lead, Finance Provides Support

Ant Group has restarted capital operations after six years, with its subsidiaries Ant International, OceanBase, Ant Digital Technologies, and Ant Lingbo successively launching external financing rounds. Ant International has completed a $1.2 billion Series A funding round and is expected to list in Hong Kong as soon as this year; OceanBase and Ant Digital Technologies are also preparing financing rounds, with listing expectations heating up. Against the backdrop of hard tech and AI dominating market narratives, whether Ant can return to its valuation peak through an AI transformation remains to be tested.