Tencent announced a series of product and technology upgrades across embodied intelligence and AI agents at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC 2026).
The upgraded full-stack embodied intelligence solution spans cloud infrastructure, models, platforms and applications, and is designed to help robots and system developers improve efficiency and performance.
For AI agents, Tencent introduced a portfolio of differentiated solutions to enhance productivity for both enterprises and individuals. Tencent Cloud’s enterprise-grade Agent Development Platform 4.0, or ADP 4.0, is now available globally, alongside the launch of an ecosystem initiative covering major industries and application scenarios. The platform has already been deployed across more than 30 industries, supporting use cases ranging from smart customer service and knowledge management to media production and more. Tencent WorkBuddy is also now available on iOS, Android and HarmonyOS for individual users.
Tencent has continued to accelerate its full-stack AI development in 2026. Total API calls to its Hy3 model increased more than 68-fold compared with the previous-generation Hy2 within a single week of launch, claiming the top position on OpenRouter’s global LLM usage leaderboard.
Breakthroughs in Tencent’s foundation models have accelerated the evolution of applications such as embodied intelligence and WorkBuddy. “AI is evolving from chatbot interactions to task-based collaboration, expanding from personal use to workplaces and enterprises, and from a single assistant to teams and entire organizations,” said Songtao Lin, Vice President of Tencent. “We will continue strengthening our models and platform capabilities to make AI more practical, collaborative and accessible to everyone.”
Tencent Debuts Full-Stack Approach to Embodied Intelligence
Tencent presented its full-stack embodied intelligence strategy for the first time at WAIC, demonstrating a comprehensive approach across foundation models, native agents, and development.
Together, these capabilities are designed to help robots better understand their surroundings, make decisions and carry out tasks in the physical world.
At the model layer, Tencent introduced a portfolio comprising Hy-Embodied-VLA-0.5, Hy-Embodied-VLM-1.0 and Hy-Embodied-RxBrain-1.0. Each model supports a different part of a robot’s intelligence. RxBrain-1.0 serves as the reasoning engine, combining language-based reasoning with visual understanding to support decision-making. VLM-1.0 focuses on perception, delivering performance comparable with Tencent’s previous flagship model while using only one-tenth of the computing resources. Trained on more than ten thousand hours of high-quality data, VLA-0.5 brings vision, language and physical action together in a single model and can be deployed across different types of robots. The model portfolio has already been tested in real-world scenarios, including retail guidance, visitor assistance and eldercare services.
Tencent also introduced the TairosAgent embodied AI agent framework and the Apexio agent, which work together to help robots continuously perceive their environment, make decisions and take action. Tairos, Tencent’s embodied intelligence platform launched in 2025, has also been upgraded. The platform will provide a range of open-source capabilities, agents, development tools and services, helping lower development barriers across the full value chain from models and robotic systems to real-world applications and accelerate the adoption of embodied intelligence.
At the infrastructure layer, Tencent Cloud has developed a three-tier architecture for embodied intelligence spanning computing infrastructure, model services, perception and interaction. The cloud and AI foundation supports the full development cycle, from research and model training to deployment. Tencent Cloud is also working with industry partners and has launched the cloud-based Embodied-AI-as-a-Service (EaaS) offering, helping bring embodied intelligence from technical development to broader real-world adoption.
“True intelligence emerges when language, vision, spatial understanding, physical control and environmental feedback work together,” said Zhengyou Zhang, Chief Scientist of Tencent and Director of Tencent Robotics X Lab, and Director of Futian Lab.
Zhang added, “These capabilities must be tested in a continuous loop of perception, physical interaction and action. The latest developments reflect Tencent’s approach to embodied intelligence, moving beyond isolated digital intelligence towards systems that can understand, interact with and respond to the physical world as an integrated whole.”
Tencent Cloud Launches Global ADP 4.0; WorkBuddy App Debuts Across Major Mobile Stores
As AI enters its next phase, agents are emerging as an important driver of productivity. Simon Wu, Vice President of Tencent Cloud, announced the global launch of Tencent Cloud’s enterprise-grade Agent Development Platform, ADP 4.0.
It now connects with widely used communication platforms such as LINE and Telegram, supports custom time-zone scheduling and automatic language adaptation, integrates a range of leading foundation models with localized support, and connects with mainstream SaaS platforms including Google Workspace.
“The rapid adoption of AI agents is now a clear trend, but identifying the right use cases will be critical,” said Wu. “By combining full-stack capabilities with open APIs, Tencent Cloud ADP will work with partners to develop practical, industry-specific solutions and accelerate the adoption of AI agents across a wider range of industries and application scenarios.”
For AI agents to become part of day-to-day business operations, they must first be able to access and understand an organization’s own knowledge. Tencent LearnShare also announced an upgraded enterprise knowledge integration solution, enabling AI agents to more comprehensively retrieve, interpret and apply internal knowledge.
For individuals and teams, Tencent officially launched the standalone WorkBuddy app. Since its launch in March, WorkBuddy has evolved through frequent product upgrades and has become a widely used AI productivity tool in China.
From executing tasks efficiently in the digital world to acting autonomously in the real world, Tencent is drawing on its full-stack capabilities across models, tools and platforms to equip AI with both the intelligence to understand and the ability to act.
Looking ahead, Tencent will continue to invest in foundational technology, strengthen its platform capabilities and accelerate the practical adoption of AI across industries.
