Recently, Tencent launched the AI search function on its social platform WeChat, which was unable to be used normally due to excessive server burdens in less than a day after grayscale testing. According to Tencent's instructions, this function uses the Hunyuan big model for searching and is connected to the DeepSeek-R1 model to provide deeper thinking services. However, although the number of users participating in grayscale tests is extremely small, the number of calls is extremely large, resulting in frequent prompts of "Busy Services, please try again later".
In this case, Tencent had to take quick measures to turn most of its search demand to its chatbot "Yuanbao" to meet the strong needs of users. The urgency of this decision reflects Tencent's confidence in the application potential of AI technology in users' daily lives, and also highlights the shortcomings of current technical infrastructure carrying capacity.
Through this change, users will need to download and use the "Yuanbao" application when they need to use the AI search function. The implementation of this strategy means that although the current AI search function faces technical bottlenecks, Tencent is still working hard to provide users with a better service experience. In the future, as the technology gradually matures, more users are expected to be able to use AI to search smoothly.
For users, although the current experience is limited, this may also be an opportunity to promote the progress of related technologies. Tencent said that in the future, the system will be continuously optimized to better meet the needs of users and ensure that AI technology can play its due role in WeChat.