Tencent – China's Super App Giant Tests AI Assistant in WeChat to Catch Up!

Tencent is testing the AI assistant Xiaowei in its super app WeChat – including speech, text, and mini-programs, based on its own WeLM model and occasionally DeepSeek. With 1.4 billion users, this presents a huge monetization opportunity, but the company is lagging in the AI race behind ByteDance and Alibaba. An assistant for 1.4 billion users The Chinese tech giant Tencent is taking a crucial step into the core of its empire. The company is testing an AI assistant named Xiaowei directly in WeChat – known as Weixin in China – initially...