AI in Interactive Media & Services

Baidu's Apollo Go robotaxi service had completed more than 17 million rides by November 2025 and was running over 250,000 fully driverless orders a week across 22 cities including Beijing, Wuhan, Hong Kong, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Baidu reports 10.14 million kilometres per airbag deployment, a sixth-generation vehicle cost of 204,600 yuan, and says Apollo Go is projected to reach profitability by 2025.

Tencent Games Peace Elite AI Teammate: large model plus AI Bot architecture, 110M cumulative users, 17.7M daily active users, becoming new engine for player retention and growth, validating AI-scale application in massive gaming scenarios.

In March 2026 Tencent launched ClawBot, which puts OpenClaw AI agents into WeChat as a chat contact so users can send instructions such as handling email, managing files or automating workflows from the app. Tencent has also linked OpenClaw to QQ and WeCom and launched QClaw, Lighthouse and WorkBuddy.

Meta Reality Labs used Instrumental's manufacturing AI platform on seven new hardware programs a year, including Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, with more than 60 imaging stations that photograph each unit at key assembly steps. Discover AI flags novel defects and visual search speeds root-cause analysis; Meta reports 900+ engineering weeks saved in one year and a sixfold return.

Tencent launched WorkBuddy, an AI-powered workplace assistant that integrates with the company's cloud and AI ecosystem and supports compatibility with OpenClaw skills. Accessible via WeCom or a web-based interface, WorkBuddy automates email triage and replies, meeting scheduling, and document summarization as part of the broader Chinese AI agent boom triggered by the open-source OpenClaw framework in early 2026.