AI Agents Expand Practical Deployment Across Education and Government

People's Daily reports that artificial intelligence agent tools such as WorkBuddy are transitioning from conceptual demonstrations into practical operational settings across elementary classrooms, administrative departments, and enterprise workflows. In Shenzhen, an educational public-welfare edition of WorkBuddy launched on October 19, allowing teachers throughout the country to complete lesson preparation, generate courseware, communicate with student families, and conduct academic analyses. Guangdong authorities launched the Bay Engine WorkBuddy platform in Guangzhou on August 18, providing intelligent administrative capabilities across the provincial government system by embedding the software directly into everyday public office operations. Tencent officially introduced the WorkBuddy open platform on September 2, welcoming an initial group of ecosystem partners while opening agent capabilities to external developers, industrial applications, and hardware manufacturers. The agent system also links internal and third-party tools such as enterprise messaging, document editing, and online conferencing to allow users to compose documents and dispatch notifications across applications.

Guangdong deployed an initial smart office pilot across 18 provincial units, integrating features such as policy querying, document drafting, terminal links, and data searches directly into administrative workflows to enable cross-department collaboration while preserving an audit trail.