WeChat

WeChat is a Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media, and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. It functions as a 'super app' integrating services like messaging, payments, and mini-programs for over a billion users.

Why it’s in the news: It is in the news due to Tencent's integration of a new AI assistant into the platform and a recent management scandal involving a leaked bonus.

Latest on WeChat

• I gave Tencent’s WeChat AI agent control for 24 hours: where it excelled – and stumbled
• From faded letters to WeChat: How some Teochew families in Southeast Asia are finding long-lost relatives
• Tencent fires WeChat manager after 7-figure bonus leaks online, sparks uproar
• Tencent Embeds AI Assistant in WeChat's Billion-User Empire
• Tencent tests AI assistant for its super app WeChat in China
• Tencent Tests AI Assistant for Its Super App WeChat in China
• The move positions WeChat as a platform combining messaging, payments, and artificial intelligence services.
• [via Tencent]
• WeChat opens up to smartphone AI assistants after ByteDance phone backlash

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