AI office apps in China: how Tencent, ByteDance, Baidu and Alibaba chase growth
An industry recap republished by 36Kr compares how Chinese big tech is growing its AI office agents. According to August AI product rankings, domestic PC AI-office clients reached 33.16 million monthly active users, up 10% month over month: WorkBuddy 11.88M, Baidu Dazi 7.52M, Qwen Office 1.58M (+160.39%) and the late-August launch Doubao Work at 662,900. Tencent cold-started WorkBuddy on WeChat and WeCom before a large offline ad push; Baidu Dazi leans on Baidu Search and Netdisk for traffic; ByteDance converts users via Doubao, Douyin and Feishu; Alibaba avoids the consumer traffic war and goes after enterprises through DingTalk and Alibaba Cloud.
With general chatbots' growth stalling, AI office agents have become the main battleground for Chinese giants' productivity monetisation, making their go-to-market tactics worth watching.