Ant Group’s 2022 Technical Highlights: Open‑Source Privacy Computing, OceanBase 4.0, AI Security, and Research Achievements

Ant Group announced the global open‑source release of its trusted privacy‑computing framework “YinYu”, a comprehensive stack that integrates mainstream privacy‑computing techniques to address data security and privacy in data circulation, and established a free‑use model for developers.

The launch event, supported by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) Privacy Computing Alliance, featured prominent guests such as Academician Wang Xiaoyun, CCF Secretary‑General Tang Weiqing, and others, and introduced the CCF‑Ant Privacy Computing Research Fund to support frontier research.

Ant’s proprietary “Trusted Encrypted Computing (TECC)” technology was highlighted as one of the “Top Ten Hard‑Core Technologies” at the 5th Digital China Summit, offering cross‑dimensional improvements in security, applicability, and performance.

OceanBase’s 2022 release marked the entry into the 4.0 era with a single‑machine distributed‑integrated architecture that combines the scalability of distributed systems with the performance of centralized designs, lowering deployment costs and enabling operation on devices as small as a Raspberry Pi.

The company published its 2022 Anti‑Fraud Governance Half‑Year Report, noting that its intelligent risk‑control system can complete a full transaction risk assessment within 10 ms, and detailed new anti‑fraud products, collaborations with hardware manufacturers, and over a hundred new anti‑fraud patent applications.

At the IDC China Digital Finance Forum, Ant Group won two technology awards for its intelligent risk‑control system and the “Good Health Insurance” fast‑claim project built on the “YinYu” framework.

Ant’s Vice President and Chief Technology Security Officer Dr. Wei Tao was inducted into the IDC CSO Hall of Fame for his contributions to network‑security foundational technologies.

During the 2022 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), Ant’s “Intelligent Risk Perception and Response Joint Anti‑Fraud System” received the SAIL‑Star award, and its “YinYu” trusted privacy‑computing stack was selected as one of the eight “Treasures of the Exhibition”.

The SAIL award recognized the system’s ability to perform pre‑event anomaly detection, real‑time identification, and post‑event intelligent handling across billions of daily transactions.

Ant also open‑sourced its high‑performance graph database TuGraph (Apache 2.0 license) in collaboration with Tsinghua University, positioning it as a record‑holding, fastest‑running graph database.

In partnership with CAICT and Tsinghua, Ant released the AI security testing platform “AntJian”, offering end‑to‑end model vulnerability assessment for various data types, leveraging over 1,000 AI‑related patents.

Ant’s “Green Computing” initiative demonstrated energy‑saving server technologies that reduced electricity consumption by 46 million kWh in 2021, equivalent to the travel of 350 000 electric vehicles over 100 km.

The company showcased nine security labs covering intelligent risk control, digital identity, data security, frontier technology research, and network crime investigation.

Ant’s research labs contributed four papers accepted at NeurIPS 2022 and two at ICML 2022, focusing on explainable AI, visual asset creation, and cross‑modal representation learning, while collaborations with top universities yielded additional publications in CVPR, KDD, and ECCV.

Overall, Ant Group’s 2022 achievements span open‑source privacy computing, distributed database innovation, AI security, green technology, and prolific academic output, underscoring its leadership in both industry and research domains.