Tencent Partners with Chinese Phone Makers to Enable AI Assistant Integration with WeChat
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Li Na
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Tencent is partnering with Chinese smartphone makers (Huawei, Xiaomi, Honor, Oppo, Vivo) to enable phone AI assistants to directly place WeChat calls and send messages through agent-to-agent (A2A) capabilities. This integration blurs the line between super apps and mobile operating systems, signaling a new competitive phase over AI access points. WeChat has 1.4 billion users.
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· 3 pulledTencent Holdings is collaborating with phone makers to allow the artificial intelligence assistants built into handsets to directly place voice or video calls or send messages via WeChat
a move that will further blur the line between super apps and mobile operating systems
signals a new stage of competition over AI access points
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