The Office Agent Race Shifts From Chatbots to Organizational Work
NextFin News — In June more than sixty million visits were recorded across seventeen Chinese desktop AI office agents. One product alone, Tencent’s WorkBuddy, accounted for nearly twenty-one million of them. ByteDance’s TRAE IDE followed with almost thirteen million. Alibaba’s earlier offering trailed at under eight million. Those numbers mark a clear change in how people use AI at work: the conversation has moved from answering questions to finishing multi-step tasks. The same summer the three companies that dominate the traffic ranking each reorganized their agent efforts. Alibaba’s response arrived on August 3, when it opened public beta of QwenWork and released a new large model on the same day. The platform merges three earlier agents—one that controlled a user’s computer and files, o