Tencent Yuanbao

Tencent Yuanbao (腾讯元宝) is Tencent's AI assistant app, built on the company's Hunyuan large model — its deep-reading mode can natively handle inputs of up to nearly 500,000 characters, generating illustrated summaries that can even cite the original images . It launched with feature pushes like the "3D Character Dream Factory" in mid-2024 , and has since spread well beyond a standalone chatbot: by early 2026 Tencent folded it into WeChat- and QQ-linked social spaces called "Yuanbao Pai" — backed by a billion-yuan Lunar New Year red-envelope campaign — where users can @Yuanbao to make memes via the Hunyuan 3.0 image model, run group games, or set reminders, a bid 十字路口Crossing framed as Tencent trying to ignite an AI-era social gateway the way the 2015 red envelopes ignited WeChat Pay . It's also become the connective layer inside Tencent Meeting, powering live minutes refreshed every two minutes, an AI proxy that attends meetings on your behalf, and a Q&A interface over full recordings — covering, as 十字路口Crossing put it, the full lifecycle of a meeting .