The World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai ran July 17 through 20. Ant Group, Tencent, Alibaba, and Baidu presented agent products aimed at making deployment more accessible.
Ant Group launched Agentar 2.0 with 200 pre-configured agent templates and hundreds of out-of-the-box tools. Tencent released a dedicated app for WorkBuddy across iOS, Android, and Huawei’s HarmonyOS, described as the first general-purpose agent app on all three major mobile platforms in China.
Alibaba launched Meoo Team for managing and customizing AI applications. Baidu demonstrated DuMate and reported that daily queries had grown 20x since its March launch. The products address different needs, so their announcements should be evaluated separately.
Inspect what a template includes
Ant Group CEO Cyril Han Xinyi described the goal as a shift “from individual efficiency to a wholesale upgrade of the organization’s collective productivity.” The statement sets out an ambition. A team considering the product still needs to inspect how a template fits its actual work.
Check the inputs, connected systems, default permissions, and expected output. A pre-configured task may reduce setup work while leaving integration, security review, and exception handling with the customer. A mobile app changes where a person can use the agent; that alone does not establish how well it completes the assignment.
These are useful distinctions when a pilot depends on its original builder. Document what that person configured and test whether someone else can repeat the setup. If security review is the remaining obstacle, identify the unresolved access or data question directly.
Include deployment in the evaluation
The Microsoft 2026 Work Trend Index reports that organizations where agents handle execution see people’s own agency expand. That finding provides context for examining how agent work is assigned; it does not establish that a particular template will produce the same result.
Alongside model capability, test the steps your team must complete to get a workflow running. Record who configures it, who approves access, and who handles a failed run. Include any specialist help the integration requires. A template may leave that work in place.
The 200 templates in Agentar give a buyer a catalog to inspect. Choose one relevant task and follow it through setup, permissions, execution, and review. Compare that process with the workflow you use now before deciding whether the platform makes deployment easier.