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IT Home reported on October 10 that Tencent Yuanqi issued a “Notice on the Discontinuation of Yuanqi Platform Services” on October 8. Due to business adjustments, the Yuanqi platform will stop providing services on November 9, 2026. Before services formally end, users can still log in and use their existing agents as normal; after the shutdown takes effect, agents they have created will no longer be available. Users are advised to export their data and migrate their operations as soon as possible.
Starting October 29, 2026, the platform will stop allowing the creation of new agents and the distribution of API keys. Existing agents can continue to be used normally until services formally end.
Official service termination date: November 9, 2026. At that time, the Yuanqi platform will shut down all public-facing services, including application access, data reading and writing, API calls, and console use. Users will no longer be able to access the Yuanqi platform, and Yuanqi agent pages will no longer be displayed. Agents published through the Yuanqi platform to other channels, including official accounts, service accounts, and WeChat Customer Service, will no longer respond to user conversations.
From the publication of the announcement until the product's shutdown, users can use the Yuanqi platform's export tool to back up data such as agent configurations, workflows, and conversation records locally. In addition, to give users time to complete data export arrangements, a data retention transition period will be provided, ending on January 9, 2027.
The specific arrangements are as follows:
Before the shutdown (from now until November 9, 2026): The Yuanqi platform's data export function will remain available, and users can export and download backups at any time;
After the shutdown (November 9, 2026, to January 9, 2027): Platform functions will no longer be available, but users can still log in to the Yuanqi data export console to download backup data;
Data deletion: Starting January 9, 2027, the platform will delete all user data in accordance with the law, except for logs and other records that laws and regulations require it to retain. Users should complete their backups before then.
IT Home noted that at the Tencent Cloud Generative AI Industry Application Summit held on May 17, 2024, Tencent unveiled its new agent product, “Tencent Yuanqi,” which it described as a “one-stop platform for creating and distributing agents.”
According to Tencent's official description, Tencent Yuanqi has the following features:
An agent store: Users can select and use the agents they need from the store to meet different needs.
Easy agent creation: Users can create agents without code using prompts, plugins, workflows, AI-assisted creation, and other features.
A rich selection of plugins and knowledge bases: Tencent ecosystem plugins and knowledge base resources are pre-integrated, and third-party capabilities will be made available, providing creators with ready-to-use tools.
Distribution across Tencent channels: It will be among the first to support distribution across Tencent channels, such as QQ, WeChat Customer Service, Tencent Cloud, and search.