Tencent President Liu Chiping Talks Again About WeChat AI: WeChat Will Become an AI-First Ecosystem, Expected to Transform into Huge Value

On August 12, during Tencent's Q2 2026 earnings call, Tencent President Liu Chiping discussed the feedback on the gray testing of WeChat AI's "Xiao Wei" in the second quarter. He stated that AI can make WeChat smarter, helping users with transactions, exploring content, and managing daily life. In the PC era, QQ was mainly a communication and social tool, but in the mobile internet era, WeChat amplified QQ's value by over ten times. As we enter the AI era, WeChat is set to evolve into an AI-first ecosystem over time. Users will be able to give a command, and the system will execute it automatically. He mentioned that if Tencent can provide this experience while controlling costs and meeting user privacy needs and cost-effectiveness, it can endow WeChat with powerful capabilities. "In the future, WeChat's ecosystem will expand, transforming its current profit model into enormous value. This is the future we envision. With the prototype launch, we are becoming increasingly confident about this."