How widely is WorkBuddy used?

  • According to HSBC’s review, WorkBuddy has completed 9 billion user task requests since its launch in March 2026; its enterprise edition covers more than 50 industries and has served 50% of China’s Fortune 500 companies and 60% of China’s top one hundred companies.
  • More than 50 thousand partners and developers have joined the open platform, providing more than 200 thousand skills that expand the tools available to WorkBuddy for different tasks.

What changes with integration into WeCom and office tools?

  • The newly launched Buddy One connects tools including Tencent Docs, Tencent Meeting, Tencent WeDrive and ima through a unified account, quota and data pool. It can use different tools to generate multimodal content for team members to edit and review collaboratively.
  • Tencent WeDrive centrally stores work context and generated content for WorkBuddy. Once integrated with WeCom, WorkBuddy can use communications, documents and meeting records within the scope of its permissions to understand and carry out tasks.
  • Companies do not need to replace systems, migrate data or redesign workflows. Managers can also centrally allocate user licences, token quotas and access rights, and revoke permissions centrally when employees leave.

Which capabilities is Hunyuan Hy4 expected to improve?

  • HSBC says Hy4 is set to launch and is expected to handle long-running tasks and real-world productivity tasks significantly better than Hy4 Preview, while introducing visual understanding for the first time.
  • The new model also aims to improve inference efficiency by reducing computing costs, redundant tokens and excessive reasoning while maintaining or improving accuracy. Hy4 Flash, positioned as a more cost-effective option, may also launch soon.

What supports overseas cloud expansion?

  • Over the past year, Tencent Cloud’s overseas customer base doubled and its business reached more than 150 countries and regions; overseas AI demand grew at a triple-digit rate over the same period.
  • Tencent has deployed more than 2 million servers worldwide. Over the past year, it added or expanded data centres in Frankfurt, Malaysia, Mexico, Osaka, Riyadh and Thailand, and improved infrastructure cost-effectiveness by optimising software and hardware, computing resources and storage management.
  • HSBC maintains its buy rating on Tencent, with a target price of HK$600 for the HK$700 counter and RMB 542 for the renminbi counter.