Ant Group becomes Boohee Health’s largest external shareholder with over 28% stake to enhance AI health services ecosystem on AQ

Hangzhou, July 8th, 2026 – Ant Group and Boohee Health jointly announced that Ant Group has completed a strategic investment in Boohee Health, becoming its largest external shareholder with a stake of over 28%. Boohee Health founder and CEO Ma Haihua will remain the company’s largest overall shareholder. The two sides will deepen cooperation in core use cases such as weight management to jointly build professional AI health services.

 

Boohee Health has been operating for nearly 20 years in weight management, nutritional intervention, and chronic disease prevention. It has served a cumulative 200 million registered users and 30 million annual active users, and its food database contains more than 1.6 million food entries.

Ant Group has been investing in the healthcare sector since 2014. Its flagship AI health app, AQ (Ant A-Fu), launched in June 2025, has become China’s largest AI-native health management app with over 100 million users. Designed to address everyday health needs and support habit formation, AQ currently handles more than 10 million health-related queries per day.

 

This partnership will further enrich AQ’s AI health service ecosystem. In addition to existing AI-enabled medical services such as doctor recommendations, hospital appointment booking, and online consultations, AQ is expanding its scope from traditional medical assistance toward broader day-to-day health and wellness management.

Notably, against the backdrop of obesity becoming a major global health challenge and a significant driver of healthcare costs, AQ launched a nationwide initiative in China at the end of June 2026, encouraging users to collectively lose 100 million jin (50 million kilograms) through science-based and sustainable weight management, supported by smart devices and behavioral incentives.

 

By integrating Boohee Health’s professional dietary knowledge base and behavioral intervention capabilities, AQ will enhance its services in high-frequency scenarios such as dietary tracking and weight management, offering more precise and evidence-based guidance.

 

Boohee Health founder and CEO Ma Haihua noted that nearly two decades of practice have demonstrated that health management can be driven by professional knowledge, behavioral models, and digital capabilities. He emphasized that both companies share a strong alignment in their vision for AI-driven health innovation. Going forward, Boohee Health will continue to focus on behavior-based health management while leveraging the AQ platform to serve a broader population.

 

Zhang Junjie, Vice President of Ant Group and Head of Health Business, said that more users are now turning to AI for everyday health support, with many already using the AQ app to log meals and calculate calories. He added that weight management is only the starting point, and Ant Group aims to work with more professional partners to provide diversified and expert-level health services, helping users better understand, care for, and manage their health. AQ, he said, is evolving not only into an “AI doctor-like assistant,” but also into a personal AI health coach.

 

Looking ahead, the two parties will continue to explore areas such as scientific weight loss, health-related e-commerce, joint model training, and broader ecosystem development, bringing AI-powered health services further into everyday life.

 

Boohee Health is an AI-native health company focused on advancing weight management, metabolic health and chronic disease prevention. Founded in 2008, the company combines artificial intelligence, real-world health data and nearly two decades of expertise to develop AI-driven health products and solutions. Boohee Health has served more than 200 million registered users and over 30 million annual active users, empowering consumers, healthcare providers, enterprises and ecosystem partners with more intelligent, personalized and efficient health services.

 

Ant Group is a global digital technology provider and the operator of Alipay, a leading internet services platform in China, connecting over one billion users to more than 10,000 types of consumer services from partners. Through innovative products and solutions powered by AI, blockchain and other technologies, Ant Group supports partners across industries to thrive through digital transformation in an ecosystem for inclusive and sustainable development. For more information, visit www.antgroup.com.

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Ant Group