In September 2026, WeChat launched internal testing of the “Small-Medium AI Social” feature, allowing users to directly query their friends’ activities and communicate on their behalf through the built-in intelligent assistant. This feature supports native dialogue operations, launching mini-programs, searching for content, and generating images, and can provide summaries and suggestions in the chat box. Tencent customer service confirmed that this is a native AI assistant currently being tested on a small scale, but no further response was given by the official authorities at the time of reporting. Meanwhile, with the highly connected Agent network, the risk of information pollution has increased significantly; for example, the Moltbook forum has seen a large number of false facts generated by Agents, even leading to a “wrong spiral.” Additionally, advertisements targeting Agents may be misleading or contain injection attacks, and the attention economy underlying the business model faces challenges. In the future, it will be necessary to establish mechanisms similar to those used to regulate companies in order to address the principal-agent problem caused by introducing uncontrollable agents into the production environment.
“WeChat is currently testing the ‘Small AI Social’ feature, allowing users to communicate with friends through intelligent assistants based on their requests. Tencent's customer service confirmed that ‘WeChat Small AI’ is a native AI assistant being tested in a limited scope. It supports native functions such as dialogue operations, launching mini-programs for services, searching for videos and articles, and generating images. It also provides summaries and response suggestions in the chat box. Sina Technology sought confirmation from Tencent regarding this news, but no response was received as of the time of publication.”