Tencent is closing Yuanqi, the no-code platform it launched for building and distributing AI agents. In a notice dated October 8, the company said the platform will stop service on November 9, 2026, citing business adjustments. It gave no further reason.
The shutdown is staged. From October 29, users can no longer create new agents or obtain API keys, though existing agents keep working until the cutoff. On November 9, Tencent will turn off app access, data reads and writes, API calls and the developer console. Yuanqi agent pages will no longer display, and agents that were published from Yuanqi to other channels, including WeChat Official Accounts, Service Accounts and WeChat Customer Service, will stop answering users.
Tencent is advising users to export their data and migrate quickly. Until November 9, the platform's export tool lets them back up agent configurations, workflows and conversation records locally. After that, a transition period runs to January 9, 2027, during which users can still sign in to a data export console to download backups even though the rest of the platform is closed. From January 9, Tencent says it will delete all user data except logs and records it is legally required to keep.
Yuanqi was unveiled at a Tencent Cloud generative AI industry summit on May 17, 2024, as what Tencent called a one-stop platform for creating and distributing agents. Its pitch was low-threshold creation: users could build agents with prompts, plugins, workflows and AI-assisted setup without writing code, draw on preintegrated plugins and knowledge bases from the Tencent ecosystem, browse an agent store and push finished agents to Tencent channels such as QQ, WeChat Customer Service, Tencent Cloud and search.
The closure removes a route Tencent offered for small businesses and content creators to put a chatbot inside WeChat accounts. Operators who rely on such bots for customer questions now have about four weeks to rebuild them elsewhere before conversations go unanswered.
It also comes as Tencent's agent push has moved toward products it runs itself, such as the WorkBuddy office agent and a series of vertical agents built into its own apps. Tencent has not said whether a successor service will take over Yuanqi's distribution role.
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