WeChat to take commands from AI assistants in major shift for Tencent
Tencent Holdings is opening WeChat to smartphone artificial-intelligence agents, as the Chinese tech giant fights to keep the app’s 1.4 billion users locked into its ecosystem in the AI era. The new feature would allow a phone’s built-in voice assistant to send messages or start voice and video calls inside WeChat, according to a report on Thursday by Chinese financial news outlet Yicai. WeChat had been working with the country’s biggest phone makers – including Huawei Techno
Phone makers including Huawei, Honor, Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo set to support feature that reverses past reluctance to open the super app
The new feature would allow a phone’s built-in voice assistant to send messages or start voice and video calls inside WeChat, according to a report on Thursday by Chinese financial news outlet Yicai.
Globally, third-party platforms like WhatsApp have long allowed deep integration with assistants like Apple’s Siri. While Siri has been able to send WeChat messages, Tencent has historically restricted external assistants from deeply navigating its app, preferring to keep users inside its own walled garden.
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