
WeChat just quietly shipped AI to 1 billion people. No keynote. No viral demo. No "ChatGPT killer" headlines. Just a small icon in the search bar. Tap it, and you're talking to Xiaowei — Tencent's AI assistant now embedded in the app 1.3 billion people already use daily. This is how AI actually wins. Not by launching a standalone app nobody downloads. Not by forcing users to learn a new interface. But by becoming invisible infrastructure inside the tools people already can't live without. The West builds AI products. China builds AI plumbing. And plumbing always wins. — Robbie Jeo
