ChinaTencent launched an AI search engine that indexes WeChat accounts.
Yuanbao Search ranks official sources first, drawing on 157 vetted ones.
Results draw on public web pages and WeChat content, with AI summaries, follow-up questions and source tracing.
In reviewer tests, top video results were a year old and some WeChat links failed to open.
Tencent says it will keep the product to search and does not rule out ads.
How each outlet framed it
- Zhidx
- reports Tencent's Yuanbao Search positions itself as a search product, not an AI assistant, and says ads are tolerated with labelling and collapsible placement
Sources: Zhidx