{"id":44509,"date":"2025-07-29T07:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T07:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/44509\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T07:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T07:01:10","slug":"tech-giants-from-tencent-to-bytedance-vie-for-ai-agent-supremacy-after-manus-relocates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/44509\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech giants from Tencent to ByteDance vie for AI agent supremacy after Manus relocates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Big Tech firms from <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/tencent?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tencent Holdings<\/a> to <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/bytedance?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ByteDance<\/a> are intensifying their focus on artificial intelligence (AI) agents in a competitive market, taking advantage of the void left by rival Manus AI, which has relocated overseas amid geopolitical tensions.At the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/article\/3319751\/waic-shanghai-tencent-sensetime-launch-new-ai-models-stir-industry-rivalry?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC)<\/a> in Shanghai over the weekend, Tencent\u2019s cloud computing unit unveiled a dozen AI agents \u2013 software designed to autonomously complete tasks on behalf of business users and consumers, the company said on WeChat on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Tencent showcased how its online marketing agent could automate entire workflows \u2013 from profiling target consumers and selecting suitable products to creating marketing materials and evaluating campaign performance.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">AI agents, such as those specialising in coding, have emerged as a new battleground, with both Chinese and international companies racing to launch competing services. Tencent recently introduced CodeBuddy IDE, akin to ByteDance\u2019s Trae and Baidu\u2019s Comate, which are AI-powered coding assistant apps that streamline software development.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While Tencent\u2019s AI agents already support a variety of use cases, such as assistive coding, the company has also updated its agent development platforms to enable third-party developers to create tailored and specialised agents.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Crowds at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on Monday. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/bffd93b9-17e8-4d69-baa0-578323e478e8_741ac6ff.jpg\" title=\"Crowds at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on Monday. Photo: AFP\"\/>Crowds at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on Monday. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The initiative is aimed at accelerating AI adoption \u2013 a move that Tencent Cloud vice-president Wu Yunsheng described as crucial for unlocking the value of AI models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese Big Tech firms from Tencent Holdings to ByteDance are intensifying their focus on artificial intelligence (AI) agents&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,3298,5310,35402,181,507,35403,35404,17758,144,8192,35405,35406,35407,4633,74,35401,35408,8875,35409],"class_list":["post-44509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-agents","tag-alibaba","tag-alibaba-group-holding","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-benchmark","tag-berkeley-function-calling-leaderboard","tag-bytedance","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-chinese-big-tech","tag-coze-studio","tag-manus","tag-shanghai","tag-technology","tag-tencent","tag-tencent-cloud","tag-vibe-coding","tag-world-artificial-intelligence-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}