AI office agents: Tencent WorkBuddy, Alibaba Qianwen Office, ByteDance Doubao Work
A TMTPost industry analysis argues that Tencent's WorkBuddy, Alibaba's Qianwen Office and ByteDance's Doubao Work have settled into a three-way contest in China's AI office agent market, echoing a QuestMobile report published in September 2026. It cites roughly 102 million monthly active users and about 1.387 billion monthly sessions across the AI productivity-office track as of July 2026, up 112.4% year on year, with native app MAU up 261.1% and PC client MAU up 340.6% as users move from chat boxes to workbenches. The piece warns the vendors' headline numbers are not comparable — 382 million for the Doubao app overall, 30 million cumulative signups in Qianwen Office's first public-beta month (actual August MAU 1.5829 million) and 20 million cross-platform MAU for WorkBuddy, which it says reported 3,000–7,300 paying enterprise customers, about 140,000 paid seats and near-80% enterprise retention — and that all three still struggle to convert individual efficiency gains into organizational productivity.
It shows the AI office agent race shifting from chat-style assistants toward enterprise workflow platforms, while inconsistent data definitions and reliability issues keep the outcome open.