{"slug": "ai-agents-are-coming-to-chinas-workplaces-too", "title": "AI agents are coming to China’s workplaces too", "summary": "Tencent is launching an AI assistant called Dayuan inside its enterprise collaboration tool WeCom, powered by DeepSeek's large language models. The tool can understand user requests and respond intelligently, aiming to boost Tencent's competitiveness in the Chinese enterprise AI market against US rivals.", "body_md": "Chinese tech giant Tencent is set to launch an AI assistant inside WeCom, its Slack-like collaboration tool for enterprises. The new tool, Dayuan, is built on the latest large language models from Chinese AI developer DeepSeek.\n\nTencent announced the news in [a post on Chinese messaging platform Weibo](https://weibo.com/1044254764/5313027688632009) by Tencent’s public relations manager Zhang Jun. Dayuan will automatically understand user requests and will respond according to the demands of the user, he wrote, according to a [translation by Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-24/tencent-tests-deepseek-powered-ai-agent-for-wechat-corporate-app). “At any time within WeCom, simply swipe left to summon Dayuan. It can intelligently recognize the interface you’re on, understand what you’re asking, and help you resolve issues more effectively,” he wrote, according to the report.\n\nIn addressing the Chinese enterprise market, Tencent has an advantage over other companies in the AI space because it has a vast reservoir of customers who use WeCom. Earlier this month, it announced a [range of AI productivity agents](https://www.tencent.com/en-us/articles/2202350.html) to address the demand for more AI tools across enterprises.\n\nTencent has been intensifying its efforts in the AI space in an attempt to beat US competition. In April, it launched [an updated version of its Hunyuan model](https://www.infoworld.com/article/4163276/former-openai-research-scientist-launches-new-ai-model-for-tencent.html) to catch up with more established AI companies such as ByteDance, Alibaba and DeepSeek.\n\nThe launch of Dayuan with its vast supply of user data will provide a step-up for Tencent and will reinforce Chinese efforts to establish serious AI competition to US products.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-agents-are-coming-to-chinas-workplaces-too", "canonical_source": "https://www.computerworld.com/article/4190075/ai-agents-are-coming-to-chinas-workplaces-too.html", "published_at": "2026-06-26 15:55:09+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-26 16:07:46.302016+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "large-language-models", "ai-products", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Tencent", "WeCom", "Dayuan", "DeepSeek", "Zhang Jun", "ByteDance", "Alibaba", "Hunyuan"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-agents-are-coming-to-chinas-workplaces-too", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-agents-are-coming-to-chinas-workplaces-too.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-agents-are-coming-to-chinas-workplaces-too.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-agents-are-coming-to-chinas-workplaces-too.jsonld"}}