Users can interact with the AI agent, called ‘Xiaowei’, via text or voice, and complete tasks by tapping into mini apps.

Tencent is testing its AI assistant Xiaowei inside WeChat for 1.4 billion users, with shares surging 10.5% on the news. Here's what investors need to know.

Tencent has begun testing Xiaowei, a voice-and-text AI assistant built into WeChat, with a full public rollout targeted for the third quarter.

Known as Weixin in China, the super app has made the new AI assistant available to a small number of users, according to a statement from WeChat on Monday. Users are able to…

Users can interact with the AI agent, called ‘Xiaowei’, via text or voice, and complete tasks by tapping into mini apps.

Tencent has begun testing Xiaowei, an AI assistant for WeChat, enabling select users in China to perform tasks via text or voice by integrating with mini-apps.

WeChat is an indispensable part of daily life in China and Tencent is trying to tap into its huge user base to expand use of its AI services.

Xiaowei es el nuevo asistente, similar a MetaAI, integrada con pagos, servicios y aplicaciones. La firma Tencent habría puesto algunas limitaciones a la capacidad de su IA

Tencent is internally testing Dayuan, an AI agent for WeCom that reads chats, emails, and meetings to compete in China's enterprise AI race.