Tencent launches Buddy One cross-app AI system for consumers

On October 29, 2026, Tencent officially unveiled Buddy One, a cross-application AI collaboration system for individual users, at its Global Digital Ecosystem Conference. According to IT之家's report that day, Buddy One connects productivity products including Tencent Docs, Tencent Meeting, Tencent Drive, and ima. These services share the WorkBuddy Agent foundation and are unified under a single account system and a shared credit pool. Tencent stated that WorkBuddy on PC becomes available once it has been updated to version 5.9.0 or above and the user's accounts have been linked. The company also said that memory sharing will be supported later, with additional products joining over time.

The report also walked through how the setup works. Once a user's accounts are connected through Buddy One, WorkBuddy no longer requires repeated authorization, and users no longer need to copy and paste context manually. To get started, a user opens the WorkBuddy PC client, taps the personal entry point in the lower-left corner, then goes to Settings → Personal Profile → Go to Management Center, and links the Tencent Docs, Tencent Meeting, ima, and Tencent Drive accounts they want to use. After linking, there is no need to specify which application to search: the user simply states a request, and WorkBuddy retrieves and integrates content from the authorized documents, meetings, and knowledge bases, then produces answers with sources attached. During retrieval it calls the Buddy One full-app search, and matching material is labeled with the application it came from, such as ima, Tencent Docs, or the WorkBuddy library.