Tencent's AI assistant "Yuanbao" has quietly launched an internal test for a new social feature called "Yuanbao Party" today. As a key innovation in Tencent's AI field, "Yuanbao Party" aims to explore the deep integration of AI technology in multi-user social scenarios, dedicated to creating a new "social space" where AI and user groups can entertain and collaborate together. This move marks that Tencent is expanding the application direction of AI from a single efficiency tool to a social attribute that connects people and enhances group interaction.

In terms of core gameplay, "Yuanbao Party" gives AI a strong sense of participation. Users can freely create or join different "parties" and directly @Yuanbao in the group to summarize chat points or quote its responses. In addition, Yuanbao AI can also act as a "supervisor," helping users start interest check-in activities such as fitness and reading. Besides text interaction, the party also supports the "image re-creation" function, allowing users to quickly turn ordinary photos into funny memes or emojis, sparking social fun through collaborative creation.

On the technical level, Yuanbao Party demonstrates the depth of Tencent's cross-product collaboration. According to reports, the next public test will launch "Watch Together" and "Listen Together" features based on Tencent Meeting's audio and video capabilities. This feature allows users to invite friends within the party to watch movies, sports events, or listen to music synchronously. By introducing professional-level audio and video underlying technology, Tencent attempts to reconstruct an immersive multi-user collaborative entertainment experience within the AI social space, making AI truly integrated into users' daily life scenarios.

To achieve a smooth transition for user growth, Yuanbao Party is deeply integrated with popular social products such as WeChat and QQ. Users can invite WeChat and QQ friends to join with one click by sharing a "party number" or a unique link. Before this, Yuanbao had already achieved multi-point reach within social platforms: users not only can add "Yuanbao" as a friend for instant interaction, but also can quickly summarize content or ask extended questions by @Yuanbao in official accounts and video comment sections.

From an industry perspective, Tencent's move undoubtedly brings the AI competition into its most familiar "social arena." Through "Yuanbao Party," Tencent tries to open up a new mode of human-AI interaction, where AI is no longer just a cold question-and-answer machine, but a social participant that can lubricate interpersonal relationships and enhance group activity. This attempt provides a new solution for the current homogenized large model application market based on social relationship chains, and also signals the arrival of the era of social AI.