Tencent starts testing the new Xiaowei AI assistant powered by WeLM and DeepSeek models in its WeChat app in China, in an effort to catch up in the AI race (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
Tencent began testing Xiaowei inside WeChat, bringing AI assistant features to one of China’s largest consumer app ecosystems.
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<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-22/tencent-tests-ai-assistant-for-its-super-app-wechat-in-china"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260622/i3.jpg" vspace="4" /></a>
<p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260622/p3#a260622p3" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Luz Ding / <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a>:<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-22/tencent-tests-ai-assistant-for-its-super-app-wechat-in-china">Tencent starts testing the new Xiaowei AI assistant powered by WeLM and DeepSeek models in its WeChat app in China, in an effort to catch up in the AI race</a></b></span> — Tencent Holdings Ltd. has started testing a new AI assistant for WeChat as part of its efforts to catch up with peers in China's white-hot artificial intelligence race.</p>
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