AnyMind Group, a marketing, e-commerce, and digital transformation BPaaS company, today announced that it will establish AnyAI Lab in Hangzhou, China in June 2026. The new hub will serve as a center of excellence to drive the development of AI agents and their applications across the company’s businesses and products.
By combining data accumulated through the company’s operations and platforms across 15 markets with Hangzhou’s advanced AI development environment, the hub will further accelerate the company’s ongoing AI-native transformation. Additionally, these features will be progressively implemented across AnyMind Group’s suite of platforms. The company also plans to start recruiting AI engineers and AI product development talent globally.
Why Hangzhou was selected as the research and development base for the company’s new AI agent
In recent years, business applications of AI have expanded to workflow and business automation. Against this backdrop, Hangzhou is strengthening its global presence as a city that attracts advanced AI talent and development communities in fields such as AI applications and robotics, including being designated as one of China’s national new-generation artificial intelligence innovation development pilot zones. The city is home to thousands of digital and AI-related companies and continues to rank among China’s leading cities in terms of net inflow of advanced IT talent.
Hangzhou has also developed an ecosystem that can quickly deploy and apply cutting-edge AI technology and research results to real services and businesses. Implementation and utilization are also actively progressing in the field of autonomous AI agents.
AnyMind Group decided to establish a base in Hangzhou, believing that by gaining early access to this AI development and implementation environment and incorporating cutting-edge AI technology knowledge and development know-how into its products and business operations, AnyMind Group could contribute to strengthening its competitiveness over the medium to long term.
Main initiatives of AnyAI Lab
AnyAI Lab will promote the development of solutions based on the data/AI utilization platform “AnyAI” and promote the following initiatives across business areas.
1. Application development of autonomous AI agentAnyAI Lab will advance the application development of AI agents, a rapidly expanding and evolving field. This includes designing systems where multiple AI agents work together to support and automate workflows, improving AI capabilities such as memory, inference, and leveraging external tools, and designing and implementing AI-powered workflows. The lab will also drive the implementation and operation of these technologies in real-world business operations.
2. Accelerate development of the AnyAI offering suiteInsights and development results from AnyAI Lab will be gradually integrated into the company’s various AnyAI solutions. By leveraging business data and feedback from its operations across 15 markets in Asia, the company will evolve its AI capabilities in close alignment with real-world workflows and customer needs.
3. Strengthen operations for company-wide AI native transformationAnyAI Lab also serves as a core capability for AI-native transformation business operations across AnyMind Group. The company is already promoting the use of AI globally across business areas such as sales and planning, and plans to further improve its operations by utilizing AI agents in the future.
AnyAI Lab’s key strength lies in its ability to directly connect AnyMind Group’s business infrastructure across APAC and the Middle East with Hangzhou’s AI implementation environment.
AnyMind Group maintains daily commerce flow and consumer touchpoint data across marketing, e-commerce, live commerce, and more. By combining this first-party data with Hangzhou’s AI implementation environment, the company will move beyond proof-of-concept efforts and drive a cycle of developing, operating, and improving AI agents that will lead to actual business operations.
“As AI technology continues to evolve, business competitiveness is shifting to how effectively AI can be implemented into real-world businesses and operations. AnyMind At Group, we don’t just view AI as a tool to improve business efficiency. We believe that AI is the foundation for transforming business itself, and we are promoting AI-native transformation across the company. Hangzhou is one of the cities with a growing presence in the world of AI applications and agents, and is home to advanced AI talent and development.” AnyMind Group’s strength lies in its business infrastructure and data across 15 markets in Asia, and through AnyAI Lab, it will combine data from markets across Asia with Hangzhou’s AI development environment to further accelerate product development and business operations enhancement with AI agents. ”
With the establishment of AnyAI Lab, AnyMind Group will strengthen its global recruitment of AI engineers and AI product development talent. As part of a global organization founded in Singapore and headquartered in Tokyo, new hires will have the opportunity to work at the forefront of AI product development, leveraging data accumulated across the company’s markets in Asia Pacific and the Middle East.
The following positions are currently available:
- AI agent engineer (multi-agent/agent workflow)
- Applied scientist (implementation and optimization of AI model products)
- Machine learning engineer (multimodal technology)
- Lab Director (Hangzhou Hub Leader)
Learn more and apply here: https://anymindgroup.com/career/#open-positions
