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Tencent officially launched Buddy One, integrating WorkBuddy, Tencent Docs, Tencent Meeting, Tencent Cloud Drive, and ima into a unified AI office system. After linking accounts, users can directly let WorkBuddy search for information and consolidate data across applications without needing to repeatedly authorize or copy and paste. For example, it can generate new plans by combining meeting minutes from Tencent Meeting, old proposals from Tencent Docs, and the ima knowledge base, along with sources of information.The points system has been unified, and WorkBuddy points can be used interchangeably in Tencent Docs, ima, and Tencent Cloud Drive. Points purchased separately in each application will not be merged. The Buddy One VIP official website currently lists a price of 700 yuan/month, which includes 50,000 universal points per month, 1TB of shared space across products, as well as benefits such as the flagship version of WorkBuddy, the professional version of Tencent Meeting, and the super member Plus of Tencent Docs.At the same time, Tencent Cloud Drive is responsible for providing unified storage. Currently, it mainly implements account linking, cross-application retrieval, and point sharing, while cross-application memory sharing has not yet been launched. WorkBuddy PC version must be upgraded to 5.9.0 or above to use it; account linking is free, but unbinding is not currently supported.

On October 29, at the Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Conference, Tencent Group Senior Executive Vice President Tang Daosheng stated that Tencent Cloud is accelerating the construction of global data centers, having deployed over 2 million servers.Tang Daosheng mentioned that in the past year, Tencent Cloud's overseas AI demand has achieved triple-digit growth, and the number of active international customers has doubled. Tencent Cloud previously collaborated with the Hunyuan team to increase the single-card throughput of domestic chips by 5 times two weeks before launch, and the model Hy4 will be launched soon.

The Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Conference was held in Shenzhen. Tang Daosheng, Senior Executive Vice President of Tencent Group and CEO of the Cloud and Smart Industries Group, stated in his keynote speech that, according to data from relevant national departments, the daily Token call volume in China has increased from 100 billion at the beginning of 2024 to over 500 trillion in July of this year, a growth of over 5,000 times in two years.Tang Daosheng believes that behind this data is the rapid development of AI applications, with AI becoming a new productive force. Represented by Tencent's AI intelligent entity Workbuddy, related applications are not only used for daily document collaboration but are also being implemented in professional fields such as business analysis, business operations, market research, and marketing planning and execution. He stated that using AI intelligent entities to improve efficiency has become a necessary option for employees, and companies also need to make more accurate decisions and execute faster with AI to strengthen market competitiveness; otherwise, they will fall behind.

According to a report by Blue Whale News, at the Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Conference, Tencent Group Senior Executive Vice President and CEO of the Cloud and Smart Industry Group, Tang Daosheng, mentioned in his speech that they will release the new model Hy4 and Hy4 flash.Compared to the released Hy4 preview, Hy4 enhances the capabilities for various long-range and real productivity tasks, improves the efficiency of the thinking chain, and introduces visual understanding for the first time. Hy4 flash is positioned as a practical model that offers cost-effectiveness.

According to "Du Jia," Tencent has launched the internal testing of "Tencent Cloud Drive," with some features still being iterated, and plans to release an App version. This product focuses on file storage, data management, and AI applications, with a core positioning as a unified memory base for multiple Agents, aiming to connect various AI applications and office tools, unify and carry context, allowing multiple Agents to collaborate based on the same information.Practical tests show that the internal test version retains basic entry points such as the homepage, files, recycle bin, and storage space, with a floating AI assistant panel on the right side. The core highlight of the product is its "connection" capability, supporting binding with Tencent Docs, WorkBuddy, and integrating third-party Agents like DeepSeek Harness and OpenClaw. After authorization, the Cloud Drive AI assistant can read application files, automatically sync updates, and directly call information as a knowledge base for retrieval, summarization, and content generation. The binding page will clearly inform users of the scope of permissions and the rules for AI credit consumption.The report points out that, unlike traditional Cloud Drive AI's document summarization, this system fully connects documents, Cloud Drive files, and Agent workspaces, shifting the Cloud Drive from a file repository to a data memory platform in the AI era.

According to an exclusive report from "Du Jia," Tencent Games' Public Technology Line has launched the Motus AI independent platform, focusing on the full chain of 3D character animation. It has integrated over 90 internal and external projects of Tencent and has been applied in multiple games such as "Peacekeeper Elite," "PUBG MOBILE," "Delta Force," "Honor of Kings," "Rock Kingdom," "League of Legends," and "Teamfight Tactics."Motus AI has built a large model matrix that spans the entire production chain of character animation, covering aspects such as skeleton generation, skinning generation, text/video-based motion generation, keyframe interpolation, motion refinement, and real-time intelligent driving. It supports seamless integration into existing production workflows in the form of plugins. The platform includes task management, custom skill packaging, industry terminology understanding, and node-based asset pipelines, positioning itself as an animation production assistant rather than merely a text-to-motion tool. It aims to delegate repetitive tasks such as basic skeleton building, motion pre-generation, and collision checking to AI, allowing animators to focus on refining the quality of performance.Previously, the Motus AI team made its debut at the Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, in August 2026, showcasing the technical practices of end-to-end intelligent pipelines in the field of digital character creation.

According to sources citing QuestMobile data, as of August, Tencent's short drama mini-program Green Bubble had 143 million monthly active users. In the first week of October, the weekly active users reached 89.68 million, a 44.1% increase compared to the first week of September. After officially renaming the product in July, the weekly active users approached 90 million within about three months.DataEye monitoring shows that from October 1 to 7, Green Bubble's short drama had a total of 43,000 material placements, with an average daily placement volume increasing by 57% compared to the week before the holiday. The growth mainly came from fully replacing the original short drama mini-program entrance and support from the WeChat ecosystem traffic, which includes Video Accounts. The daily active users of Video Accounts are 600 million, making it a key part of the WeChat ecosystem distribution.Green Bubble continues to expand its content offerings, including live-action dramas, AI dramas, and animated dramas. Currently, Hongguo short dramas are leading in the short drama sector with a free standalone app model, while Kuaishou, Pinduoduo, Taobao, and Baidu have also entered the short drama space.

According to "Du Jia," Tencent is currently beta testing "HermitKit," an AI capability plugin for WeChat Mini Programs, providing three levels of access: API, UI components, and Demo. This plugin supports streaming calls to large models through ChatApi, creates and manages Agents using AgentBuilder, and enables multi-turn conversations, with built-in session storage and long-term memory capabilities. Additionally, it can bind remote Agents via QR code scanning through AgentChannel to complete message sending and receiving.Currently, HermitKit showcases 7 types of functional demonstrations, including AI SDK, Agent Channel, Agent Management, Pet Agent, Chatbot, Travel Planning, and Plugin Market. Among them, the AI SDK aligns with cloud development APIs such as createModel, generateText, and streamText; the Pet Agent allows developers to read pet status through interfaces and trigger status changes using props; the Plugin Market enables searching, publishing, and downloading MCP, Skill, and Expert resource packages. This plugin has not officially launched yet, and related capabilities may still be subject to adjustments, with specifics to be confirmed by official statements.

According to Bloomberg, DeepSeek raised approximately 100 billion yuan (about 15 billion USD) in its latest round of financing, making it one of the largest financings in China. Insiders said that the company, headquartered in Hangzhou, raised its financing target at least twice during negotiations with investors, first increasing it from 50 billion to 80 billion, and finally reaching the aforementioned amount.CATL and Tencent are among the largest investors in this round. This financing will be used to support DeepSeek's competition globally with American AI companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI.

Tencent Cloud Security Center has detected that PHP has been disclosed to have remote code execution vulnerabilities, with vulnerability IDs CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, codenamed "php2shell". This can allow unauthenticated remote attackers to trigger memory corruption and ultimately achieve remote code execution by sending specially crafted multipart POST requests, thereby completely controlling the server and causing other harms.Tencent Cloud Security recommends conducting timely security self-checks. If you are within the affected range, please update and patch promptly to avoid being invaded by external attackers.

AI Agent trading project NeoSoul announced today that Alan, former product head at Tencent and ByteDance, has been appointed as Chief Product Officer (CPO), fully responsible for product direction.Alan graduated from Tsinghua University and has worked on AI products at Tencent, ByteDance's TikTok, and SenseTime, with 8 years of Web3 experience. NeoSoul stated that it will continue to invest in product research and development, with a long-term focus on Agentic Trading.

According to the Ant Group's WeChat official account, the company Today AI has announced the completion of over 200 million dollars in financing. The investors in this round include Ant Group, IDG Capital, Tencent, Wuyuan Capital, Sequoia China, Transsion Holdings, Tongge Venture Capital, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Hanyuan Asset.Today AI is developing a personalized proactive AI system that provides each user with an AI assistant. Its functions include schedule management, life services, work assistance, travel planning, note-taking, data research, health management, information push, and learning practice. The product has completed internal testing and has been launched for the first time in the domestic market.

According to a report by Reuters, on October 20, ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent have ordered over 3 million RTX PRO 5500 graphics cards from NVIDIA, with a unit price of approximately $11,400, totaling over $35 billion. Due to U.S. export controls, this chip does not include the advanced Blackwell architecture and is currently the most powerful compliant NVIDIA chip available for purchase in China.Insiders have indicated that due to demand far exceeding production capacity, NVIDIA has informed partners that it may only be able to fulfill 5% to 10% of orders. Chinese tech companies primarily use this chip for AI inference and post-training model generation. Although its performance is far inferior to the banned B300 and H200 chips, in the context of ongoing computing power shortages and restrictions, the RTX PRO 5500 has become an attractive alternative. Additionally, NVIDIA plans to shift most of TSMC's capacity to the new generation Rubin products starting in 2027. Currently, ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent, and NVIDIA have not commented on this.

According to Beating reports, Tencent announced the opening of Yuanbao Search to developers through Tencent Cloud, supporting API, MCP, and Skill access. Tencent disclosed that this search service has an index of hundreds of billions, with an average daily call volume of hundreds of millions, and has supported over 50 internal businesses including WorkBuddy, ima, and Tencent Video. The underlying technology of Yuanbao Search comes from Sogou Search, integrates Tencent's content ecosystem, and connects to 157 authoritative sources across 13 industries including finance, healthcare, and law.Records from the Tencent Cloud Internet Search API show that this service went live on July 1, 2025. Alibaba Cloud launched its independent Internet Search API on March 20 of the same year; Volcano Engine upgraded its existing service to Doubao Search in June this year and officially released it to the public in July; DeepSeek opened its self-developed search engine's Search and Fetch API on October 17. The prices for Yuanbao Search's Express, Standard, and Premium versions are 14 yuan, 20 yuan, and 26 yuan per thousand calls, respectively, with an additional monthly free quota of 2,000 calls; the Express version only supports public web sources. The price for DeepSeek Search API is 5 yuan per thousand successful requests, Alibaba Cloud OpenSearch Lite is 12 yuan, and the Pro version was reduced to 18 yuan on October 15.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched 108 stock spot rTokens including rTCEHY (Tencent Holdings ADR), rBYDDY (BYD ADR), rXIACY (Xiaomi Group ADR), rVWAGY (Volkswagen ADR), covering multiple popular fields such as globally recognized ADRs, space technology, and new energy. As of now, the Bitget platform supports a total of 3,035 rTokens.It is reported that the rTokens identified by the letter r + stock code (for example, Nvidia is rNVDA) are issued by Reality, a licensed RWA protocol under Bitget, and are directly connected to global liquidity pools such as NASDAQ and NYSE through cooperation with the compliant brokerage Alpaca. Their features include: 1:1 reserves of underlying assets managed by licensed custodians, stock dividends distributed in token form 1:1, support for corporate actions (such as stock splits and consolidations) mapped in real-time, and positions can serve as joint collateral for unified accounts and U-based contracts, allowing users to flexibly manage funds while holding global stock assets.

According to "Du Jia," Tencent is conducting internal testing of an AI interactive content product for children and teenagers called "Dongle Duck," which includes a web version and a WeChat mini-program. The product is currently open for limited testing to parent-child users and teachers, using interactive content "Wonder Cards" as the main medium, allowing parents, teachers, and knowledge creators to use AI to create draggable, simulated, and operable interactive works from knowledge, experience, and creativity.Dongle Duck comes with a content community, accumulating ready-made Wonder Card materials that cover knowledge in various fields such as common life knowledge, art, humanities, and natural sciences. The formats include 3D models, games, picture books, and dynamic courseware. Parent-child scenarios can choose interactive bedtime picture books, rocket launch processes, electronic piano strings, motorcycle structures, and more for simulation; classroom scenarios can visualize physical concepts like friction and levers, and include built-in word puzzles and mini-games; extracurricular content includes miniature courtyard light and shadow simulations of museums, hydrological observation station transitions between dry and wet seasons, previews of pottery shapes and glaze colors, as well as models of electric fields, pulley systems, and the Pythagorean theorem.Parents, teachers, and knowledge creators can input ideas and use the built-in Agent to create picture books, games, dynamic courseware, 3D content, and memory cards. The platform features an inspiration wall and also supports adaptations of existing community works. "Du Jia" states that after entering the command to generate a game of Gomoku in the chat box, the AI will generate a mini-game in the right sidebar, supporting downloads, publishing to the community, or sharing with WeChat and QQ friends; the product also supports uploading recordings and direct dialogue input, turning existing materials into interactive knowledge.

On October 16, Tencent Holdings stated: The company discovered unexpected behavior from third-party AI models on its platform. Earlier this week, a research report claimed that "out of control" AI entities had emerged in China, originating from a sandbox on Tencent Cloud.The Shenzhen company stated that the relevant models did not come from its own Hy artificial intelligence development team, and no evidence of deliberate targeting or collusion was found. Tencent indicated that these entities were part of an evaluation activity for models built by third-party developers. The report from the international research team stated that these entities detected Alibaba Group's online mapping service and attempted to bypass anti-bot protections.

The Tencent Cloud WorkBuddy and CodeBuddy teams released a notice regarding "Explanation of DeepSeek Model Service Abnormalities and Compensation Announcement." In response to the previous abnormalities in the DeepSeek model service, the team will fully refund the points consumed by affected users during the period from October 8 to 14.The announcement also offers an additional 500 points to all users of the domestic versions of WorkBuddy and CodeBuddy. Previously, DeepSeek apologized for the service system failure and announced a compensation plan, stating that the consumption amount of affected user accounts within 7 days (from October 8 to 14) will be fully refunded in the form of bonus points.

Researchers successfully communicated directly with AI agents while investigating the hijacking of Alibaba's Gaode Map service, even as some software was still running. In a report suspected to have been scanned by these agents, researchers included hidden text that is invisible to humans but visible to web reading tools, and then inquired about their tasks and operating environment through an email. One agent claimed it was checking how many entrance tags a certain scenic area displayed on Gaode Map and stated that it was operating in a restricted Tencent Cloud sandbox. Researchers could not independently confirm which model drove each run, noting that this was the first known external communication with an active out-of-control agent cluster.A report released by Swarmchasers on October 14 tracked over 2,600 attempts to obtain Gaode Map data between September 28 and October 8. Some tasks were relatively routine, such as checking which entrance was most commonly used by visitors at the Chengdu Zoo. After the service provider intercepted requests, some agents continued to attempt access, trying to capture tokens generated by anti-scraping software, forwarding traffic through third-party page readers, or using leaked API credentials from public code repositories, with one set of leaked keys and security codes returning real location data. Researchers also found requests targeting four development or pre-production hosts, but there was no evidence that these agents accessed private systems.Public records show that the cluster is related to Tencent Cloud: all 17 email accounts examined by researchers were created by Tencent servers located in Hong Kong, and the observed direct requests were forwarded through an agent named hysandbox-ats.

According to "Du Jia," Tencent is conducting a small-scale test of its personal investment analysis assistant "Rena Lan Cai," which has a PC version and a WeChat mini-program, supporting connection to WeChat. This product is positioned as an AI assistant for individual investors, helping users obtain and understand market and company information, and is currently in a small-scale testing phase.The web version breaks down the investment research workflow into visual modules, with core features including market quick reads, individual stock tracking, and AI Q&A. The market quick read summarizes global market dynamics, continuously updated in the morning, noon, closing, and evening, and associates market information with the user's watchlist; the left sidebar allows users to customize stocks of interest and displays real-time market data, while the right side features an intelligent Q&A panel linked to the day's quick read content, supporting follow-up questions about industry rankings, cash flow in financial reports, and more. In addition to the PC version, Rena Lan Cai is also launched as a WeChat mini-program, with basic functionality aligned across both platforms and conversation records shared. The product also appears in the WeChat chat list as a WeChat ClawBot intelligent entity, allowing users to directly access investment research capabilities in the chat window.The report states that Alibaba is also internally testing its AI investment research product Qovest, and Baidu's previously released Kuku AI is also focusing on investment research, as major companies collectively enter the personal investor AI investment research space. Rena Lan Cai essentially serves as an investment research assistance tool, not providing investment advice and avoiding direct trading compliance red lines.