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phoenix technology news (author/dong yuqing) on september 9, phoenix technology learned that ant group held a shareholders' meeting and reviewed and approved the proposal to add independent directors to the board of directors. zhang hongjiang, a well-known artificial intelligence scholar, founder of beijing zhiyuan research institute, and foreign academician of the us national academy of engineering, was nominated as an independent director of ant group. the number of ant's board of directors will increase from 8 to 9, with independent directors accounting for more than half, and ant's corporate governance will be more standardized and transparent.

dr. zhang hongjiang is an internationally renowned artificial intelligence scholar who has made pioneering contributions in the fields of multimedia computing and artificial intelligence, especially in the research of video and image content analysis. he holds more than 180 international patents, has published 4 academic monographs, and has published more than 400 academic papers. he is one of the scientists with the highest impact factor in the world's computer field. the nomination of zhang hongjiang as an independent director shows that ant group attaches great importance to its artificial intelligence strategy.

in 2023, ant group has identified three strategic priorities: "ai first", "alipay dual flywheels" and "accelerated globalization". in the past two years, ant has accelerated the deployment of ai applications with alipay as the core, and has served hundreds of millions of users in travel, government affairs, medical care, and financial management. at the 2024 inclusion bund conference held last week, ant launched three large-scale 2c applications - the ai ​​life manager app "zhi xiaobao", the ai ​​financial manager "ant xiaocai" and the ai ​​health manager, and launched the alipay intelligent body development platform to accelerate the construction of an open and innovative ai service ecosystem.