On November 9, Alibaba's Qwen Office shipped version 2.0, its biggest update since launch three months ago. The new "Collaboration" mode lets several people and several agents share a task inside a group linked to DingTalk chats, meeting notes and project documents.
It adds a shared material space, scheduled tasks and cross-device sync, with the digital worker Xiao Q able to take assignments inside a group, triggered by mentions or subscriptions. The same day, Tencent's one-stop agent platform Yuanqi officially ceased service, concentrating the office-agent race among Alibaba, Tencent and ByteDance.
The move signals that single-user agents are largely solved and the hard product is a room where humans and agents share context without stepping on each other.
Source: 21st Century Business Herald / Alibaba
