Qwen Office 2.0 Puts AI Agents Inside Team Group Chats

Qwen Office released version 2.0 on November 9, describing it as the product's largest upgrade in the three months since launch. The centerpiece is Collaboration, which the company calls the industry's first feature that lets multiple people and AI agents work in a shared space.

The release also adds Human-AI Co-creation, a Material Space, Automated Tasks and three-device sync. Qwen says all of the features are now generally available in the Qwen Office client.

Collaboration is aimed at where work actually happens: group chats. A shared workspace can link multiple DingTalk groups, documents, AI spreadsheets and AI meeting notes, with the digital employee able to run parallel conversations and manage and assign tasks. After a task is assigned, the agent summarizes progress, records consensus and creates follow-up to-dos.

Qwen's example is the coupon operations team at Yintai Department Store. Five staffers previously had to collect submissions from more than 60 store groups one by one and key them into a spreadsheet; with the groups and an AI spreadsheet linked to one workspace, the agent aggregates across groups and updates the table automatically.

Automated Tasks is the attempt to make the agent proactive. Users subscribe to events and set rules, and the agent starts work when conditions are met, initially covering messages from a specified person, messages that mention the user in a group, and approval tasks. In a store-management example, a regional manager can set a rule so that a stock-out mention triggers a stock lookup and a transfer request.

Human-AI Co-creation merges the chat box with the document: users can preview a file and request changes in the same conversation, or select paragraphs, cells, slides or app regions, mark multiple comments and submit them in one pass for the AI to apply in place. Multiple people and multiple agents can edit online documents, AI spreadsheets and Yida apps simultaneously.

Three-device sync completes the execution story: tasks, conversations and outputs stay in step across phone, PC and web, tasks run in the cloud even after a PC is shut down, and an authorized user can operate their computer remotely from a phone. Qwen Office had already connected DingTalk, Feishu and WeCom, and this release consolidates those integrations into a Team Agent pitch.

One caveat matters for readers: the QbitAI article states it was supplied by Qwen and republished with permission, so the feature descriptions and customer examples reflect the vendor's account. Whether Team Agents hold up inside real organizations will depend on the accuracy of cross-group context linking, permission boundaries and the reliability of automated tasks inside approval chains - questions that need independent testing.