Accelerating AI ecosystem layout: Jiufang Lingxi enters Tencent WorkBuddy to set a new benchmark for financial AI cooperation

The Zhitong Finance App learned that recently, Shanghai Jiufang Cloud Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Jiufang Smart Investment”), a subsidiary of Jiufang Smart Investment Holdings (09636), officially entered the Tencent WorkBuddy financial expert section and became an officially certified quantitative and investment research expert. This is the first time that Jiufang's AI capabilities have been officially exported to the outside world in the leading AI smart ecosystem. It also means that Jiufang Smart Investment has moved from deepening its own app to a new stage of co-building the Tencent ecosystem, setting an industry benchmark for the intelligent transformation of the securities industry.

1. Strategy first, AI financial ecosystem collaboration

Currently, AI technology, represented by large models, is being deeply cultivated in vertical scenarios. The core value of AI is not the model parameters themselves, but the ability to solve professional problems and create measurable user value in the real industry. At the same time, individual investors' demand for information equality and AI tools is becoming more and more urgent. Individual investors are an important source of market liquidity. They are also a key carrier group for residents' wealth management and the country's financial inclusion strategy. Their degree of rational participation is directly related to the healthy development of the market ecosystem, but these groups have long faced the pain points of complicated and redundant market information and high entry barriers for professional services.

In this context, Jiufang Smart Investment adheres to the “technology+investment and research” two-wheel drive strategy and continues to be deeply involved in the securities field. It has successively launched AI products such as Jiufang Digital Man, Jiufang Lingxi, and Jiufang Lingxi Claw to continue to promote innovative practices in the securities industry. This cooperation is not an isolated platform, but rather a deep ecological collaboration. Tencent Workbuddy is positioned as a full-scene AI smart workbench, covering ten vertical fields such as finance, and there is an urgent need for licensed securities AI capabilities to improve the investment and research sector; as a professional licensed institution, Jiufang Smart Investment has exactly this capability.

More importantly, the two sides have long had a foundation for cooperation — in August 2025, Jiufang Zhiqing, a wholly-owned technology subsidiary of Jiufang Smart Investment, reached a strategic cooperation with Tencent Cloud to jointly build a next-generation enterprise efficiency tool native to AI. From the underlying cloud infrastructure to the upper smart ecosystem, the collaboration path has already been initially opened. Relying on the Jiuzhang Securities Market Model as the core, combined with the collaborative work of big open source models such as Tongyi Qianwen and DeepSeek, Jiufang Smart Investment has built a “1+N” big model service platform and has become a provider of professional capabilities for leading institutions in the financial vertical field.

Figure: Jiufang AI Spirit

Jiufang settled in as a professional licensed quantitative and investment research expert, establishing a trust barrier that distinguishes it from pan-financial self-media within the platform, and also extended the professional positioning of a “next-generation stock investment assistant” from its own platform to a super ecosystem.

2. Capability capitalization, from basic infrastructure to external export

From strategy to ecology to the systematic export of investment and research capabilities, the original intention and mission of Jiufang Smart Investment has never changed, and the value of Jiufang Lingsai is reflected in this.

Jiufang Lingxi is a securities sector intelligence developed based on the Jiuchang Securities Field Model. It supports professional services such as comprehensive stock diagnosis, large market sector index analysis, financial investment education Q&A, and information query and interpretation. In 2025, Jiufang Lingxi Big Model Assistant passed the functional completeness test of the China Academy of Information and Communication Technology and became one of the first large model application products in the securities industry to receive this certification; in May 2026, Jiufang AI Lingxi was also selected for the “Top Ten Technology Finance and Top Ten Digital Finance Events” (2025) list of high-level industry certification in the field of fintech, and its technical strength has been recognized by authorities.

Figure: Jiufang Smart Investment has obtained multiple certifications in the field of data security

In the WorkBuddy financial expert section, Jiufang Smart Investment encapsulates self-developed financial intelligence and investment and research capabilities as an “Expert+Skill Skill Set” and displayed it to the public in the form of expert services. Whether they are investment and research practitioners, individual investors, or quantitative enthusiasts, they can instantly use Jiufang Smart Investment's self-developed financial AI skills to improve the efficiency of market research and investment decisions through professional and open quantitative skills. Conversation streaming cards can also guide users to register or enter Jiufang Lingxi to achieve natural backflow from the public domain to the private domain. According to reports, the work of connecting the Jiufang Lingxi to the Alibaba Qianwen ecosystem is also progressing simultaneously.

At a deeper level, a large number of real investment questions and usage feedback generated by external users continuously using the capabilities of financial experts will reverse drive the iterative optimization of Jiufang Lingxi products. According to the 2025 annual report of Jiufang Smart Investment Holdings, the company invested 356 million yuan in R&D, with 624 R&D personnel, an increase of 42.8% over the previous year. The combination of real user feedback and high R&D investment will accelerate the formation of a closed positive loop of “output - feedback - iteration”. For Jiufang Smart Investment, the core value of this cooperation lies in this: it will accumulate years of underlying AI capabilities, complete the key transition from internal use to external export, and allow professional ability to create value in real scenarios.

3. Customer first, leading the industry

Not only is Jiufang's own traffic growth and brand promotion, but the deeper strategic significance of this cooperation is the leap from “serving Jiufang users” to “serving all investors.”

Individual investors' demand for AI services continues to increase. The Jiufang AI Advanced Edition integrates the four core functions of intelligent stock diagnosis, smart stock selection, account diagnosis, and lobster tracking to provide decision support covering the entire transaction process. When these capabilities reach a wider range of investors through WorkBuddy, it means that professional investment and research capabilities are completely sinking into the inclusive financial market, empowering ordinary investors to invest rationally.

Jiufang has broken the traffic ceiling of its own apps, allowing AI capabilities professionally trained by licensed institutions to serve a wider range of investors, reflecting an open and win-win ecological mentality — not a closed garden, but moving in the direction of industry infrastructure, providing a full example of how professional institutions can use AI platforms to achieve service inclusiveness.

As far as the industry is concerned, in-depth cooperation between leading licensed institutions and leading AI platforms is gradually exploring a compliant, professional, and sustainable AI financial ecosystem co-construction path. Nine parties have entered the Tencent ecosystem with formal qualifications. Unlike Pan-Wealth Management's self-media, they rely on license qualifications to establish barriers of trust, while Tencent's official certification further strengthens professional endorsements. This combination of “professional qualification+AI capability+platform ecosystem” pushes the industry from tool thinking to ecological thinking and finds the direction for commercialization of AI in the securities field.

Jiufang Smart Investment's practice of strategically commercializing, scaling, and intelligentizing expert experience also helps promote the accelerated evolution of securities services from human-intensive to intelligence-driven, and provides a model sample that can be implemented and replicated for the industry to explore the deep integration of AI technology with securities business.

4. Ecological win-win, moving towards a new era of intelligence

Joining Tencent WorkBuddy this time is a key step in the ecological, capitalization, and commercialization of Jiufang Smart Investment's AI capabilities. Jiufang Smart Investment is continuing to expand its fintech circle of friends with an open attitude. It has successively reached cooperative relationships with cutting-edge technology companies such as Huawei, Tencent, and iFLYTEK to continuously expand its influence in the industry.

In the future, Jiufang Smart Investment will use Tencent WorkBuddy as the fulcrum to continue to open up AI financial capabilities, so that professional investment and research services can benefit every investor and push the securities industry to a new stage of intelligence with higher quality, wider coverage, and deeper inclusiveness.