Known as ‘Weixin’ in China, WeChat has rolled out the AI agent on a phased basis.
Tencent is testing a new AI assistant on its ‘super app’ WeChat, as the company attempts to catch up with its Chinese and global contemporaries.
WeChat – known as ‘Weixin’ in China – is China’s most popular messaging platform with roughly 1.4bn users, and also has functions for social media, ride-hailing and payments. WeChat has rolled out the agent on a phased basis.
Users can interact with the AI agent, called ‘Xiaowei’, via text or voice, and complete tasks by tapping into mini apps. The agent assists with a wide range of tasks, including changing settings, sending messages, ordering food, hailing rides and generating images.
Xiaowei uses WeChat’s own large language model WeLM, while also tapping into DeepSeek to process some queries.
