TREE NEWS reports: Citi said Tencent’s native AI assistant Xiaowei, embedded in WeChat, can leverage the platform’s large monthly active user base, proprietary social graph and mature mini-program commerce ecosystem. The bank expects Xiaowei to open significant long-term monetization through transaction commissions and advertising as agentic commerce grows in China. Citi maintained a Buy rating on Tencent with a HK$765 target price, implying 74% upside from Thursday’s close.
Citi: Tencent’s Xiaowei Could Become China’s Leading Agentic AI Assistant
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The more consequential point is structural, not the rating: Xiaowei sits inside WeChat's existing social graph and mini-program commerce layer, so agentic commerce in China may scale through distribution already in place rather than through new standalone apps. That matters most for platforms whose transaction and advertising rails can absorb assistant-driven purchases, and less for standalone AI assistant entrants. Whether commission and ad monetization actually materializes as agentic shopping habits form is the open question.
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