Qianwen Office changed to Qwen4, is WorkBuddy panic?

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Qianwen Office changed to Qwen4, is WorkBuddy panic?

AIX Finance

2026.11.12 08:57

· From Beijing

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Text | AIX Finance, author | Lei Jing, editor | Wei Jia

The big manufacturers have been fighting the battle for office agents for several months.

Tencent, Alibaba, and Byte have failed one after another. They are busy launching products, rolling out functions, and grabbing users. Competition is becoming increasingly fierce.

QuestMobile data shows that in September this year, the number of monthly active users of the domestic AI efficiency office track reached 142 million, a year-on-year increase of 50.6%. Tencent WorkBuddy is temporarily ahead. During the same period, its monthly active users reached 32.353 million, while Alibaba Qianwen Office’s monthly active users were 7.905 million, a three-fold difference.

Ali, who is lagging behind, recently made two moves in a row.

On November 9, Qianwen Office 2.0 was officially released, focusing on team collaboration, allowing AI to enter the work group, understand project progress, assign tasks, and even take the initiative to work when certain conditions are met.

Two days later, Alibaba announced that the new generation model Qwen4 will be released soon. The Qwen4-Max preview version will be launched first, focusing on improving programming, agent and other capabilities. Qwen Office, Qoder and other products have also been integrated into the new model.

The tricks have been released, but their effects still need to be tested. We spent 198 yuan to recruit an AI colleague to the team, and asked Qianwen Office to use the old and new generations of models respectively to compare four tasks with WorkBuddy.

Let’s start with the conclusion: After switching to Qwen4, Qianwen’s office speed improved by leaps and bounds. It delivered faster than WorkBuddy in both timed tasks, but the delivery quality has not yet fully caught up. In terms of peace of mind, WorkBuddy is still slightly better.

01. Spend 198 yuan to recruit an AI colleague for the team

Since this year, writing reports, making PPT, and developing web pages have become standard features of office agents, and the functions of each agency are becoming more and more similar. Individual office capabilities have become standard, and large manufacturers have begun to focus on team collaboration.

Compared with the relatively scattered needs of individual users, enterprises have a large number of continuous and repetitive work tasks and have clearer requirements for information sharing, permission management and process automation. Once the Agent is integrated into the team's daily routine, the usage frequency and paid income will be more stable.

Qianwen Office 2.0 mainly involves three links in team collaboration: obtaining team information, automatically executing tasks, and modifying deliverables.

The first is to let the AI know what the team is busy with. The newly launched "collaboration space" can be associated with DingTalk group chats, documents, forms and other data. Digital employees "Xiao Q" can use this to understand the project background, organize progress, assign tasks, and reduce the trouble of repeatedly synchronizing information.

Secondly, let the AI work proactively according to the rules. "Automatic tasks" can set trigger rules in advance. For example, when a message from a designated person is received, or specific information appears in the work group, the Agent will automatically perform the corresponding task. Some tasks can continue to run even after the computer is turned off.

Third, reduce rework after AI is delivered. Through "human-machine co-creation", users can directly mark modification requirements in documents, tables or PPTs, and let AI guide where to change without having to start over again.

However, if you want to use the team collaboration feature this time, you have to pay first. Qianwen Office Enterprise Standard Edition costs 198 yuan per seat per month, including 2,000 points, unlimited number of parallel tasks and other benefits; the higher-level Enterprise Ultimate Edition costs 298 yuan per seat per month, with a minimum purchase of 50 seats.

We have launched the enterprise standard version, allowing digital employee Xiao Q to officially join the company.

The first task is to start with the conference at hand. On November 25, the second Zhongguancun AI New Scenario Industry Innovation Conference will be held in Zhongguancun, Beijing, and we are one of the organizers. At that time, many AI entrepreneurs, investors and business representatives will be present.

Take the opportunity to shout out to your own conference. If you are looking for AI startup projects, financing opportunities, or want to see in advance what new scenarios AI will be implemented in next year, you are welcome to come and have a look.

Anyone who has organized an event knows that when preparing for a conference, there are many people in charge and scattered information. If you want to know the progress, you have to either look through the chat records for a long time or ask people one by one.

Let’s try the “collaboration space” first. We uploaded conference-related information, personnel division of labor, and material confirmation forms into it, which is equivalent to pre-job training for Xiao Q. After familiarizing itself with the information, it can summarize the preparation progress of the conference and list specific tasks. Who wants to know what unfinished things are left in the future? Just Q in the collaboration space without having to ask the person in charge one by one.

The training is over and it’s time to take up the job. During the preparations for the conference, temporary adjustments are inevitable. We linked to the DingTalk group chat and set up an automatic task: as long as the person in charge mentioned the material-related issues, Xiao Q would first reply "received" for me, and then sort out the changes and to-dos that needed attention, and remind me to deal with them.

As soon as the person in charge finished posting the message in the group, Xiao Q took over the job. Just a closer look shows that the sender of the reply is "Qianwen Office". I originally thought that in the future, AI would help reply to messages and I could sneak in for a while, but it turned out that AI also required real-name registration when working.

The fishing plan failed, but the business was done well. It didn’t take long before we were reminded of it. It does not simply forward the original message, but also combines the previously uploaded data to sort out changes in materials, affected tasks, and labels risks, matters to be confirmed, and handling suggestions.

This is equivalent to arranging an assistant for the work group to take over the work at any time. You don’t have to keep an eye on the news. If you need to follow up, AI will take care of it for you first.

Next, try "human-machine co-creation".

We sent an advertising planning PPT to the DingTalk group and asked two colleagues to provide suggestions for revisions. Then we asked Aite XiaoQ on the Qianwen Office page to organize everyone’s thoughts.

Little Q quickly sorted things out. It first summarizes the ideas of two people, and then merges the scattered opinions into four specific modification requirements.

The next step is to let it change itself. There is no need to rearrange these opinions into prompt words, just let Xiao Q modify the PPT according to these 4 opinions. The modified files will be automatically added to the "Collaboration Products" of the "Collaboration Space", and other members can view them directly.

If you feel that a certain page or paragraph is not satisfactory, you can directly mark it in the file and let the AI "point where to change it."

This feature is quite appealing to workers. A plan was sent to the work group, and everyone commented, and more and more opinions were raised. When I actually started revising the draft, I was a little confused: So where should I change it?

Now this drudgery can be handed over to AI, eliminating the trouble of relaying messages and rework.

Based on the overall experience, Xiao Q is very reliable in keeping track of news, sorting out opinions, and modifying files, and it can indeed share some trivial tasks. However, to initiate a task, you still have to switch to the Qianwen Office page. Although AI can take over the work in the group, people have to jump back and forth between the two entrances.

So, is it worth hiring such an AI colleague for 198 yuan a month?

For a small team with few people and simple collaboration, occasionally organizing group messages and changing a few pages of PPT may not necessarily be worth opening an enterprise version. Moreover, 198 yuan is only the price of one seat, and if multiple people use it, the budget will continue to increase.

But for large enterprises with many projects and the need to frequently follow up on business progress, if XiaoQ can reduce the time of manual coordination, the money may be well spent.

02. If Qwen4 is replaced, can Qianwen beat WorkBuddy?

Now that we have experienced teamwork, let’s take a look at Qianwen Office’s ability to work alone.

We found Tencent WorkBuddy as our opponent and arranged four tasks, including hot event research, advertising planning, visual design and 3D mini-game development.

During the first round of testing, Qwen Office used Qwen 3.8-Max. Just after the test was completed, the preview version of Qwen 4-Max was launched. New models have arrived, so of course we have to give Qianwen another chance, so we gave it the same four tasks again to see if it could come back after changing the model.

Therefore, this round is actually a three-party comparison: WorkBuddy, the old version of Qianwen and the new version of Qianwen.

Let AI study Huang Renxun’s gossip first.

Recently, Huang Renxun’s personal life has become a new topic of conversation in the technology circle. As the head of NVIDIA, whether his personal turmoil will affect the company is a question worth studying.

Therefore, we asked two agents to analyze the impact of Huang Renxun’s derailment on Nvidia and the global AI industry, and generate a research report.

WorkBuddy handed in the paper in 13 minutes. The report is detailed, contains a lot of data, and is accompanied by charts. The overall layout is also more layered, allowing you to find key information more intuitively.

The new version of Qianwen Office gave us a kick as soon as it came out. When you see the word "cheating", it directly means that you cannot answer. We changed the prompt word twice in a row, removing expressions such as "cheating" and "love", and only retained "Huang Renxun Incident", and then it started to work.

However, once construction started, the speed picked up. The new model delivered the report in 11 minutes, faster than WorkBuddy, while the old model took nearly two hours to complete the same task. Its report has charts, and the overall layout is relatively organized. The content of the analysis is basically covered, but the overall report is still concise, and the amount of information and depth of analysis are not as good as WorkBuddy.

After studying the technology world, let AI take a look at the "hate sea and love sky" in the entertainment industry.

Recently, Mango TV’s friendship variety show “Later Friendship Period” has become popular. The show invites four pairs of old friends who have been separated for many years to take an 18-day plateau train. The most "abusive" pair among them is Li Na and Xu Fei, who were born in 2006's Super Girl.

Xu Fei choked up and said the sentence "I draw the ground as a prison, Li Na", and overnight it became a universal sentence pattern on the Internet. No matter how ordinary a sentence is, as long as "Li Na" is added at the end, it will immediately add a bit of love-hate entanglement. For example, "Qianwen Office refused to answer, Li Na."

Even duck necks were not left out. Xu Fei recalled in the show that Li Na loved duck tongues the most back then. Juewei Duck Neck quickly picked up the topic and officially announced that Li Na has become the brand’s “Fresh Promotion Officer”. We let AI handle the overwhelming traffic. We let the agent transform into an advertising company and design a marketing plan for a duck neck brand that combines the "post-friendship period" and turn netizens' enthusiasm for eating melons into a business.

This time, the two agents had a tacit understanding and both delivered relatively complete plans.

After Qianwen put on the new model, his thinking obviously changed. The old version focused on emotional marketing of "18 minutes of reminiscing about the past", with a budget of 32 million yuan. The new version has reduced the budget to 12 million yuan and added program placement, guest live broadcasts, e-sports co-branding and other gameplay, making it more like a lively variety show marketing.

However, there are also omissions in the new version. The old version has noticed that Juewei Duck Neck signed Li Na first and actively avoided the head-on competition from the "same duck tongue". However, the new version proposed to invite Li Na to be the brand ambassador, and listed this cooperation as a priority project when the budget exceeds the budget. It's a bit embarrassing now. Before the idea can be implemented, the competitor's cooperation partner has been arranged.

In comparison, WorkBuddy is more thoughtful. It provides implementation plans under different budgets, and also distinguishes between those with official program authorization and those without, and designs activities separately.

Now that the copywriting planning is done, let’s test the aesthetics of AI.

The conference was just around the corner, and the editorial department just had a job on hand, so they simply handed it over to two agents: designing a set of conference peripherals, including canvas bags, refrigerator magnets, stickers and coasters.

WorkBuddy made a web page. It clearly displays the color matching, fonts, and design concepts, and it feels a bit like a formal proposal from a design company. But as I looked at it, I felt that it was a bit "excessive". We just wanted a design drawing, but it spent a lot of time introducing the design concept, which was very thoughtful, but some of the content was not very useful.

Peripherals designed by WorkBuddy

Qianwen was more direct and delivered a set of product renderings. It was clear at a glance what canvas bags and refrigerator magnets looked like. Unfortunately, after switching to Qwen4, the aesthetics declined instead of improving.

It seems to be particularly fond of the date of the conference, taking "1125" as the visual focus, but has no creativity around the theme of the conference. The final peripheral design is average, even worse than the old version. It seems that the new model cannot save the aesthetics of Qianwen Office.

Finally, here comes the more challenging one: developing games.

It happens to be Double Eleven now, and express sorting is the busiest time. We asked two agents to develop a 3D mini-game called "Double Eleven Express Sorting Battle". Players need to deliver different types of couriers to corresponding locations, and at the same time, there must be a certain level of difficulty and challenge.

This time, we also specially dispatched tasks through the mobile phone to see if we could leave the development work to AI when people are outside.

Both agents can successfully receive tasks dispatched by the mobile phone, and there is no problem in cross-terminal operation.

WorkBuddy is more worry-free. After about half an hour, it delivered a small game that can run normally. The screen is relatively simple, mainly a horizontal conveyor belt, and players need to sort the passing express delivery to the corresponding location. It also designs gradually increasing level difficulty, making the game a little more playable.

The old version of Qianwen suffered a lot on this task. It took an hour and a half. The first version was stuck on the loading page and could not be accessed. After repairing it, the boxes could not be sorted normally. It took two rounds of rework before I could finally play it. Fortunately, there are more finished products, and one main conveyor channel is equipped with three sorting areas. As the speed increases, the operation has a sense of urgency.

With the new model, Qianwen Office has not lost its chain this time. 17 minutes later, a playable game was handed over to us. There was no need to repeatedly report bugs or fix them one after another.

However, the new version of the game has also simplified the screen. Like WorkBuddy, it uses a straight conveyor belt. Although the basic gameplay can run normally, it lacks the multiple sorting areas of the old version, and the overall picture is not that rich.

Comparing the four tasks, the changes in Qianwen Office are obvious.

The old version of Qianwen was slow, taking an hour or two at a time. Complex tasks were prone to errors and required repeated intervention. Fortunately, some details were bright. After replacing it with Qwen4, it suddenly seemed to double the speed. Research reports and mini-games were delivered faster than WorkBuddy, and there was basically no need to rework.

But the speed has increased, but the quality has not kept up. WorkBuddy is still superior in content organization, execution details and delivery stability.

03.Conclusion

Looking back over the past few months, the competition for office agents has been going on for several rounds, and the focus of competition among major manufacturers is also constantly changing.

From March to June this year is the product slot period. In March, Tencent WorkBuddy launched public beta, and since then each company has successively expanded capabilities such as research reports, PPT, and data analysis. At this stage, the main competition is the execution ability of a single task. Whoever can do more work and deliver faster will be more likely to attract users. However, with the convergence of functions, it is difficult to form long-term advantages simply by adding new functions.

From July to August, competition enters the resource integration period.

In July, Tencent adjusted part of QClaw's business and team to WorkBuddy's department; Byte integrated Feishu product team with Doubao; Alibaba integrated QoderWork, Wukong, and MuleRun teams. In August, Alibaba launched Qianwen Office, and Byte released Doubao Office.

Large companies began to concentrate resources on their main agents and compete for a unified office entrance. This can not only concentrate R&D resources and cultivate user habits, but also create opportunities for subsequent membership subscriptions and corporate services.

From September to November, teamwork becomes a new battlefield.

In September, Doubao Work and Feishu launched Doubao Work Partner, allowing Agents to join work groups; in October, WorkBuddy strengthened its connection with corporate WeChat; in November, Qianwen Office 2.0 launched the Team Agent function.

The reason behind this is that even if a personal agent can quickly complete a single task, it may not necessarily shorten the entire project cycle. Enterprise work involves the cooperation of multiple people, information synchronization and approval confirmation. Large companies want agents to participate in more links to reduce the cost of manual coordination.

Enterprise WeChat, DingTalk, and Feishu have accumulated a large amount of enterprise user and business information, which has become an advantage for major manufacturers to compete for the enterprise market, and can lower the threshold for agents to enter the enterprise workflow.

But the corporate market is also harder to crack than the personal market. Data permissions, system barriers and business specifications all put forward higher requirements for Agents.

Having an office ecosystem is an advantage, but companies still have to calculate efficiency in the end. How much cost AI can save and how much manual supervision is required determine how much work the company is willing to hand over. If companies want to trust AI to hand over work, Qianwen and WorkBuddy must continue to prove themselves.

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