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China’s tech giants are taking the AI war to the office

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Why now, and why the office The trigger looks like a Morgan Stanley note from 30 July: AI investment has entered ‘halftime’, and the market is shifting from chasing upstream compute chips to two new fronts, AI applications and supporting resources. The real reason is simpler. Tencent, long mocked as behind in AI, is now … Read more

ByteDance folds Feishu into Doubao as BAT race to own the enterprise AI front door

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Not alone Alibaba and Tencent moved within weeks. Alibaba consolidated three agent lines, QoderWork, Wukong and MuleRun, under QoderWork, led by DingTalk’s Chen Yusen. Tencent moved QClaw into the unit that houses WorkBuddy. All three stopped internal horse-racing and converged on one AI front door. Why the rush On the surface it is cost control. … Read more