Physix FrontierPhysix Frontier · News Briefing Card (TMTPost · Nov 4, 2026)
AI office products pivot en masse to multi-model access
KEY FACTS
- Tencent WorkBuddy has offered third-party model options including DeepSeek, GLM and Kimi since its March launch.
- Since October, WorkBuddy has also integrated StepFun and Xiaomi flagship models, covering China's mainstream large models.
- Doubao Work and Xiaomi MiMo Desktop announced third-party model access to users on the same day last Friday.
- Microsoft says multi-model support is now the entry ticket for AI companies competing in the market, and Google's Gemini Agent also supports Claude.
- WorkBuddy has completed 9 billion task requests since launch, and its enterprise edition has entered more than 50 industries.
KEY DATA
85.34 millionWorkBuddy September monthly visits
Over 300 millionChina desktop AI office agent September visits
Nearly 5xMarket visit growth vs June
9 billionWorkBuddy cumulative task requests
PHYSIX OBSERVATION
Multi-model support has shifted from a differentiating selling point to an industry standard, showing that the competitive focus for office agents has moved from model capability to task orchestration and ecosystem integration. This benefits users: they no longer have to compromise for a single model, and their work environment can accumulate over time. But the real moat lies in whether a company can coordinate models, tools and context around tasks, and that layer of work cannot be copied.
Source: TMTPost report