On Saturday, ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen both announced that their AI agent creation features will be discontinued on July 15, 2026. After the

With Beijing’s rules on humanlike AI interaction services taking effect on July 15, Doubao and Qwen move to disable customised features.

Doubao and Qwen are pulling user-created agents before Beijing's July 15 rules on humanlike AI interaction, the world's first such framework.