# Yuanbao
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Tencent’s “Yuanbao” Reports 50m Daily Users, 114m Monthly — A Fresh Surge in China’s Attention Market
Tencent announced that Yuanbao has exceeded 50 million daily active users and 114 million monthly active users, reporting a strong engagement ratio. While the figures signal notable audience scale, their commercial significance hinges on monetisation, user composition, and regulatory constraints.
WeChat Goes Gold for Lunar New Year: AI Songs, Golden Moments and Red‑Envelope Gamification
Tencent has introduced a suite of WeChat features for the Lunar New Year—golden Moments that can drop red envelopes when liked, AI‑generated New Year songs, and customizable red‑packet covers. The updates are designed to boost engagement, encourage payments, and create shareable seasonal content, while raising questions about data use and regulatory attention.
Tencent Turns WeChat ‘Golden Moments’ into a Spring‑Festival Traffic Play — Yuanbao Adds Extra 10k Red‑Packet Prizes
Tencent has enabled a gold‑coloured New Year Moments effect in WeChat that activates when users publish a Yuanbao‑made greeting, and Yuanbao has added extra high‑value red packets as part of a RMB 10 billion Spring Festival campaign. The move highlights an escalating competition among Chinese tech firms to lock users into AI and payments ecosystems through festive incentives, while also exposing how WeChat’s sharing restrictions serve as a gatekeeper for third‑party promotions.
China’s Tech Giants Wage an AI-Powered Red-Envelope War to Win Spring Festival Attention
During the Lunar New Year, Tencent, ByteDance and other Chinese tech firms launched a wave of AI‑branded giveaways and UI changes to drive engagement. From gold‑coloured WeChat Moments and ten‑thousand‑yuan vouchers to hourly red‑packet rains and gala‑tie‑in prizes, companies are using festive incentives to rebuild user habits and showcase AI features.
Tencent Plants an AI Assistant in Group Chats — Turns NBA All‑Star into a Live Social Experiment
Tencent has embedded its AI assistant into Yuanbao Party to offer shared, AI‑augmented viewing of the 2026 NBA All‑Star weekend, tying live sports streaming to the company’s broader social and content ecosystem. The move coincides with a larger Lunar New Year “AI traffic” battle that mixes subsidies and product experiments, and it follows publication of a Tencent‑led benchmark showing current models struggle to learn consistently from conversational context.
China’s AI “Red‑Envelope” War: Alibaba’s Qianwen Rockets to 58m Daily Users — But Will They Stay?
Alibaba’s Qianwen vaulted to 58.48 million daily users on day one of its Spring Festival cash giveaway, narrowing the gap with ByteDance’s Doubao and eclipseing Tencent’s Yuanbao. The spike underscores how massive subsidies can reconfigure app rankings quickly, but low retention figures suggest the gains may be fleeting unless platform AI capabilities and habit formation improve.
Tencent’s Yuanbao Restores Red‑Packet Sharing to WeChat as App Update Reopens Copying of Codes
Tencent updated its Yuanbao app on February 7 to allow sharing red‑packet links into Yuanbao Pai and restored WeChat’s ability to copy Yuanbao red‑packet passcodes after a brief period when such codes were non‑copyable. The move reverses a constraint introduced on February 6 that had curbed how third‑party services distribute viral red‑packet promotions through WeChat.
Copyable Codes, 1‑Cent Milk Tea and a Grey Market: How AI ‘Red‑Envelope’ Promotions Are Testing China’s Platforms
WeChat briefly allowed users to copy AI app red‑envelope codes on Feb. 7, reigniting viral sharing of digital coupons after Tencent had blocked direct links. Alibaba‑backed Qianwen’s 1‑cent milk‑tea promotion sparked intense demand and a small secondary market selling redemptions, prompting the company to warn that its virtual benefits are non‑transferable and may be revoked if resold.
WeChat Cuts Off Ma Huateng’s Viral Push: Yuanbao’s Red‑Envelope Stunt Blocked for Disrupting Chats
WeChat has blocked Yuanbao’s direct red‑envelope links after users complained about aggressive, task‑based sharing that flooded chats and groups. Yuanbao quickly pivoted to a password‑based sharing model, but the move raised questions about internal alignment at Tencent and the limits of viral acquisition inside dominant platforms.
WeChat Blocks Tencent’s Yuanbao Red‑Envelope Push, Underscoring Platform First Rule
WeChat has restricted direct opening of links from Tencent’s Yuanbao app, after the app’s New Year ‘red‑envelope’ campaign spread via high‑frequency share tasks and drew user complaints. The move exposed a strategic rift within Tencent between a product philosophy that defends user experience and a group push to drive rapid user acquisition through viral mechanics.
WeChat Blocks Viral Red‑Packet Links as Tencent Cracks Down on Incentivised Sharing
Tencent limited the ability to open Yuanbao red‑packet campaign links directly in WeChat after user complaints that the promotion used task‑based incentives to induce high‑frequency sharing in group chats. Citing its external link rules against share inducements, Tencent moved to restrict the links while Yuanbao says it is urgently revising its sharing mechanism.
Tencent’s Billion‑Yuan Red‑Envelope Push: A Sprint to Seed Long‑Term AI Habits
Tencent distributed RMB 1 billion in red envelopes to promote its AI app Yuanbao ahead of the 2026 Lunar New Year, briefly overloading servers and generating broad, short‑term engagement. The campaign bought reach inside Tencent’s vast social graph, but turning festive trials into lasting AI habits will depend on product depth, day‑to‑day usefulness and sustained infrastructure investment.