Futu has officially connected to DeepSeek and launched multiple upgraded AI product features.
36Kr learned that on March 21st, Futu announced at the "Futu Investment Expo" held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wanchai, Hong Kong, that it would officially connect to DeepSeek - R1 and introduced several product features upgraded with artificial intelligence ("AI") to empower retail investors with top - notch investment tools and further realize the vision of inclusive finance.
Li Hua, Founder and Chairman of Futu Securities
The "Futu Investment Expo" is the largest retail investment exhibition in Hong Kong. This exhibition is themed around "intelligent" investment. Futu also announced a series of the latest product features in 2025, including NiuNiu AI, a newly added "Opportunities" smart - selected investment theme page, options strategies, and program trading.
Among them, the newly released NiuNiu AI is different from the previous one - way "AI Stock Analysis" page. NiuNiu AI can handle complex queries more flexibly and act as a talkative investment assistant, ready to empower every step of the user's investment process at any time.
When novice investors are overwhelmed by a vast amount of information, they can obtain relatively accurate information through conversations with NiuNiu AI to assist in stock analysis. In the future, NiuNiu AI can even directly screen suitable investment targets from tens of millions of securities at the user's request for reference. With these investment targets, investors can further in - depth analyze and compare each individual stock, formulate investment strategies, and choose investment timings. In the future, for advanced investors, Futu will also launch a highly intelligent solution - AI Algo Trading, providing retail investors with low - threshold and low - cost quantitative trading tools. It can build strategies driven by AI, allowing customers to conduct automated trading according to the strategy expectations without constantly monitoring the market.
Futu believes that to build an investment AI model valuable to investors, high - quality post - training is required. In the subsequent process of training NiuNiu AI, in addition to external public information, Futu will also use the platform's proud powerful information reserve, including detailed market data covering multiple indicators such as fundamentals, funds, technical trends, and macro data. In addition, Futu's technical team will invest a large amount of resources and time in algorithm training to enable the AI to have the logical reasoning ability of professional investors. More professional, real - time, and diverse data sources combined with targeted investment thinking training will help enhance the reasoning ability of the NiuNiu AI model and make the answers more accurate and reliable.
At the same time, every piece of data cited by NiuNiu AI will be "strictly screened" by the system and a reliable source will be found to ensure authenticity and effectively reduce the probability of the AI being affected by "noise" and reduce the occurrence of the "AI hallucination" problem.
Li Hua, Founder and Chairman of Futu Securities, said, "The popularization of AI technology will undoubtedly push the upgrade of the financial industry to a new level. From the perspective of improving investment efficiency and reducing investment barriers, it will greatly promote the development of financial inclusion. In the future, Futu will continue to increase its investment in AI and talent reserves. On the premise of the three principles of safety, compliance, and effectiveness, it will continue to explore different forms of the combination of AI and investment according to the existing product plan, including but not limited to investor education, investment consulting, and customer service. Relying on the technological capital, data advantages, and operational strength accumulated by Futu over the years, Futu will stay true to its original intention, accompany investors, and seek more development possibilities for investment applications under the AI wave to comprehensively enhance the investment experience."
It is worth mentioning that Futu also announced its 2024 financial report some time ago. Its total revenue in Q4 was HK$4.433 billion (approximately US$571 million), a year - on - year increase of 86.8%; under non - US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (Non - GAAP), it achieved a net profit of HK$1.952 billion (approximately US$251 million), a year - on - year increase of 105.4%.
Throughout 2024, Futu's total revenue was HK$13.59 billion (approximately US$1.75 billion). Under non - US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (Non - GAAP), it achieved a net profit of HK$5.768 billion (approximately US$743 million), with year - on - year increases of 35.8% and 26.2% respectively.
As of the end of the year, the number of registered users of the Futu NiuNiu and moomoo applications reached 25.15 million, a year - on - year increase of 16%; the number of account - opening customers reached 4.58 million, a year - on - year increase of 29%; the total number of customers with assets increased to 2.41 million, a year - on - year increase of 41%; and the customer assets were HK$743.3 billion (approximately US$95.7 billion), a year - on - year increase of 53%.
With the continuous advancement of the internationalization strategy, Futu has also accumulated a set of overseas methodologies. Li Hua told 36Kr, "All Chinese enterprises will encounter the problem of localization when expanding globally. Internationalization is actually localization overseas. Only by integrating into the local market can we truly understand user needs. When Futu enters a region, what it first cares about is not profit or market share, but product strength. Only when the product strength is good enough can other aspects achieve high - growth."