WeChat and Alipay counterattack Doubao: turn small programs into skills
WeChat and Alipay almost made the same choice at the same time: transform the millions of small programs accumulated over ten years into AI callable skills to deal with the pure AI native entrance threat posed by Doubao.
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In mid-June 2026, China’s two largest Internet traffic platforms made a decision in the same direction almost at the same time. First, on June 2, WeChat was exposed to internal testing of AI Agent to connect to mini programs, and on June 8, the Skill technical specifications for mini programs to connect to AI were disclosed. Following this, Alipay launched internal testing of the "AI version" on June 15, allowing users to switch to a new conversation-driven Alipay with one click. Both of them have invariably transformed the millions of small programs accumulated over the past decade into AI-callable Skills - this is the most direct response to the threat of "AI native entrance" brought by 豆包300 million monthly active users.
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