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On October 29, 2026, Caixin reported that Dowson Tong, Senior Executive Vice President of Tencent Group, described WorkBuddy as "a personal Agent for the office track," and said Tencent is connecting multiple products for AI agents. The report noted that WorkBuddy was launched in March this year and competes in the same track as ByteDance's Doubao Work and Alibaba's Qwen Office; its token consumption has already surpassed that of Tencent's chatbot Yuanbao. WorkBuddy originated from Tencent Cloud's developer tools team and nearly got cut around 2022 when Tencent was cutting costs and improving efficiency. There are currently no follow-up developments on this matter.
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Tencent Connects Multiple Products for AI Agents; WorkBuddy's Token Consumption Surpasses Yuanbao
Dowson Tong, Senior Executive Vice President of Tencent Group, described WorkBuddy as a personal Agent for the office track and said Tencent is connecting multiple products for AI agents. WorkBuddy was launched in March this year and competes in the same track as ByteDance's Doubao Work and Alibaba's Qwen Office, and its token consumption has already surpassed Tencent's chatbot Yuanbao. WorkBuddy originated from Tencent Cloud's developer tools team and nearly got cut around 2022 when Tencent was cutting costs and improving efficiency.