Tencent's internal "AI search recipe" has been made public!

What happened: Tencent upgraded its Yuanbao Search and opened it to individual developers and enterprises through Tencent Cloud via Skill, MCP and API access methods, after using it internally in products such as WorkBuddy and ima. Key numbers: Daily calls already in the hundreds of millions; supports over 50 core Why it matters: Tencent is positioning the internally tested search infrastructure as a general service for external developers, aiming to become a base layer for Agent applications as competition shifts from model capability toward infrastructure and developer ecosystems.

Tencent upgraded its Yuanbao Search and opened it to individual developers and enterprises through Tencent Cloud via Skill, MCP and API access methods, after using it internally in products such as WorkBuddy and ima.

Tencent is positioning the internally tested search infrastructure as a general service for external developers, aiming to become a base layer for Agent applications as competition shifts from model capability toward infrastructure and developer ecosystems.