Tencent has launched a public-welfare education edition of WorkBuddy, its AI agent workspace, and opened it to teachers across China at no cost.
The program is run by Tencent's Sustainable Social Value unit, known as Tencent SSV. Once an account is activated, each teacher receives 2,000 credits per month for 12 consecutive months. There are no restrictions by region or school level. Credits refill automatically on the first of each month, and teachers who run out can keep working with free models, so lesson preparation is not interrupted.
The core of the edition is a set of AI teaching assistants. Tencent SSV and the WorkBuddy team worked with universities including Peking University and Beijing Normal University to turn education research into more than 100 callable expert skills, which are still being rolled out. They cover lesson design, courseware design, polishing demonstration lessons, tiered instruction for students at different levels, home-school communication and student mental health. Teachers find them under the Experts section of the app's experts, skills and connectors panel.
WorkBuddy has also added five tools for classroom work: creative teaching, script-based classroom activities, courseware creation, animated demonstrations and material processing. According to Tencent, teachers can describe what they need in everyday language and get usable output, without writing detailed prompts.
The edition is set to connect with more Tencent productivity tools, including Tencent Docs, the Lexiang knowledge base and the AI workspace ima. That would bring documents, resource libraries and collaborative editing directly into teachers' daily workflows.
Individual teachers apply through the menu of Tencent SSV's official WeChat account by submitting their teacher identity information. Accounts are activated within three working days after approval.
The move extends WorkBuddy from enterprise offices into schools. Recent updates have added third-party models such as StepFun's Step 5 preview and a path from prompts to WeChat Mini Program previews. Packaging education research as ready-made expert skills aims to give teachers specialist help for planning and parent communication without asking them to become prompt engineers.
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