Recently, the third council meeting of the Sports Goods Industry Innovation Consortium (hereinafter referred to as "the Consortium") was held in Xiamen. At the meeting, two key technological research topics were unveiled: the Bionics & Visualization Structure Platform and the Titanium Alloy Technology Platform. At the same time, the industry's first self-developed dressing/styling large model, "Lingxi" (Inspiration), was launched.
The Consortium has added four new member units: the Xiamen Institute of Rare Earth Materials, Chinese Academy of Sciences; the Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Xiamen Science & Technology Industrial Group Co., Ltd.; and Ningbo University. Additionally, a senior scientific advisory team has been established, appointing experts such as Yang Qiang, Dean of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Vice President of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), to serve as think tank members. They will provide strategic assessments, technical direction, and resource linkage, offering high-level think tank support for building a global innovation hub for sports goods.
As the core vehicle for this digital transformation, the Anta Group Open Innovation Cloud Platform has been officially launched. The platform adopts a "1+4+N" system architecture, creating a full-link digital innovation ecosystem from ideation to implementation. It integrates core capabilities such as creative interaction, AI empowerment, project management, and data dashboards, enabling efficient collaboration between internal and external innovation resources and visualizing results. This provides a solid digital foundation for the deep integration of industry, academia, research, and application within the Consortium.
Two industry-leading research platforms were unveiled at the meeting: the Bionics & Visualization Structure Platform, which collaborates with domestic and international universities to tackle core pain points such as stuffy, sweaty shoe uppers and insufficient cushioning; and the Titanium Alloy Technology Platform, inspired by the titanium alloy spike array design used in the steel-frame snowshoes for the Beijing Winter Olympics. Leveraging its torsional resistance and fatigue resistance, the platform covers all categories of sports scenarios.
At the meeting, Anta Group announced the launch of "Lingxi," the first self-developed dressing/styling large model in the sports goods industry. Trained on over one million real product images from the past six years, the model features three core capabilities: intelligent styling recommendations, virtual try‑ons, and creative poster generation. Consumers simply describe their needs or upload a photo, and Lingxi generates complete outfit suggestions and presents a realistic image of how the clothes will look on them, transforming the experience from "buy first, try later" to "try first, buy later."
The Consortium was established in October 2024, led by Anta Group. To date, the number of member units has grown from an initial 13 to 38, covering universities, research institutes, and core supply chain enterprises, forming a deeply integrated innovation ecosystem for industry, academia, research, and application. The Consortium is fully implementing an "open competition" mechanism for key research tasks, aiming to achieve breakthroughs in 3–5 core technologies each year, and aspires to have 100 member units by 2030, establishing a globally leading innovation platform for sports goods research and development.
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