(Yicai) April 10 -- Chinese internet companies, including Kingsoft Office Software, Tencent Holdings, Alibaba Group, have been integrating artificial intelligence into their office software products as the popularity of large language models continues to grow in China.

Kingsoft rolled out an update of its WPS 365, a one-stop digital office platform for enterprises, integrating the three major capabilities of Office, AI, and collaboration, the Beijing-based firm announced yesterday.

The new version covers the basic needs of an organization's daily work from document writing to instant messaging, meetings, emails, and AI applications, said Zhang Qingyuan, chief executive of Kingsoft. The software has evolved into a one-stop AI office suite from a document processing suite, he added.

Kingsoft debuted WPS 365 in April last year. Its domestic institutional subscriptions and service revenue surged 38 percent to CNY957 million (USD130 million) in 2023 from the previous year thanks to the software, accounting for 21 percent of its total income, according to the firm’s annual earnings report.

The new version allows users to use major LLMs, Kingsoft noted. The LLM-based smart office assistant WPS AI works with various startups, including MiniMax, Zhipu AI, and SenseTime, as well as Baidu's Ernie Bot and Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen, both chatbots, it added.

Tencent has tested its LLM Hunyuan in more than 400 internal businesses and scenarios, and a generative AI function has been launched on WeCom, VooV Meeting, and Tencent Docs, Yicai learned.

Alibaba's workplace communication and collaboration platform DingTalk uses Tongyi Qianwen to offer more than 10 AI capabilities in group chats, video meetings, documentation, and developing low-code applications.

360 Security Technology will launch its 360 AI Office soon, Zhou Hongyi, co-founder and chairman of the cybersecurity firm, said in a livestream on April 8. The new product, which will have over 100 AI applications and use a membership subscription model, is expected to bring operating revenue of CNY100 million in its first year, he added.

Editor: Martin Kadiev