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1. According to the passage, what distinguishes Tencent's AI assistant from standalone chatbots?

A. It can be accessed through a separate app.

B. It is based on a more advanced AI model.

C. It can complete tasks directly within WeChat.

D. It has a larger user base than other assistants.

无注释原文：

Tencent tests AI assistant in China's most popular app as it looks to catch up with rivals

From: CNBC

Tencent on Monday said it is testing an AI assistant within WeChat in China as the tech giant looks to step up efforts to challenge rivals in the country's competitive artificial intelligence market.

Xiaowei, “a native AI assistant,” is being tested “on a small scale” in Weixin, the Chinese version of WeChat, Tencent said in a statement translated by CNBC.

Users can interact with Xiaowei with text or voice, communicate with friends and launch “mini-programs,” Tencent added. Mini-programs are apps that run inside of WeChat.

Tencent executives have been mulling further integration of AI into WeChat since last year, with investors watching closely to see if this can be a new revenue stream and a way to monetize AI.

WeChat and Weixin have more than 1.4 billion monthly active users combined, with the majority in China. It is an indispensable part of daily life in China, where people use the app to message friends, make payments, book restaurants and much more.

By integrating an AI tool into an app with a huge user base, Tencent has an opportunity to capture a large number of them for its services.

“Putting an assistant inside Weixin is the first time Tencent uses the advantage it has held all along, and that matters a lot,” Howard Yu, the LEGO professor of management and innovation at IMD, told CNBC by email.

“A standalone chatbot gives you an answer. An assistant wired into Weixin completes the task. And it's this second advantage that no rival can copy,” Yu added.

The company did not give further details about the capabilities Xiaowei would have or what AI models it is based on.

Tech companies are talking up the potential of so-called AI agents, which they see as digital assistants that are able to carry out complex tasks on a user's behalf across different apps and services.

The new AI assistant is part of a bigger move from Tencent to challenge rivals like Alibaba, DeepSeek and Zhipu in China, which has become an incredibly competitive AI market. This year, Tencent poached an OpenAI researcher to become its chief AI scientist.

Tencent also develops its own family of models under the brand name Hunyuan.

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注：完整题目见本文开头；中文文本为AI翻译，仅供参考

含注释全文：

Tencent tests AI assistant in China's most popular app as it looks to catch up with rivals

From: CNBC

Tencent on Monday said it is testing an AI assistant within WeChat in China as the tech giant looks to step up efforts to challenge rivals in the country's competitive artificial intelligence market.

腾讯周一宣布，正于国内版微信中内测一款AI助手。这家科技巨头正加速布局，意图在国内竞争白热化的人工智能市场中迎头赶上竞争对手。

giant /ˈdʒaɪ.ənt/表示“巨头，大公司”，英文解释为“Giant is often used to refer to any large, successful business organization or country.”如：Japanese electronics giant, Sony 日本的电子业巨头——索尼公司。

📍这个词来自希腊神话中的“巨人”（Gigantes），表示在某个领域或行业内非常强大或巨大的实体。

类似的还有：

📍mogul /ˈməʊɡəl/表示“（尤指新闻、影视界的）大人物；大亨”，英文解释为“A mogul is an important, rich, and powerful businessman, especially one in the news, film, or television industry.”如：an international media mogul一位国际传媒大亨。

📍magnate /ˈmæɡneɪt, -nɪt/ 表示“大亨，巨头”，英文解释为“a rich and powerful person in industry or business”

📍tycoon /taɪˈkuːn/ 表示“巨头，大亨（工商界）”，英文解释为“someone who is successful in business or industry and has a lot of money and power”如：property tycoon 房地产大亨。

📍conglomerate /kənˈglɒmərɪt/ 表示“联合大公司；企业集团”，英文解释为“A conglomerate is a large business firm consisting of several different companies.”如：the world's second-largest media conglomerate 世界第二大传媒集团。

📍behemoth /ˈbiːhɪmɒθ/ 表示“巨头（指规模庞大、实力雄厚的公司或机构）”，英文解释为“a very big and powerful company or organization”

📍titan /ˈtaɪ.tən/表示“巨人；巨头”，英文解释为“If you describe someone as a titan of a particular field, you mean that they are very important and powerful or successful in that field.”

表示“增加（尺寸或数量）；加快（进程）的速度”，英文解释为“to increase the size, amount, or speed of a process that is intended to achieve something”举个🌰：The police are stepping up their efforts to fight crime. 警方正在加大打击犯罪活动的力度。

rival /ˈraɪ.vəl/ 作名词，表示“竞争对手；敌手”，英文解释为“a person, group, etc. competing with others for the same thing or in the same area”

作动词，表示“可与…相媲美，比得上”，英文解释为“to be as good, clever, beautiful, etc. as someone or something else”举个🌰：No computer can rival a human brain for/in complexity. 没有任何计算机比得上人脑复杂。

Xiaowei, “a native AI assistant,” is being tested “on a small scale” in Weixin, the Chinese version of WeChat, Tencent said in a statement translated by CNBC.

腾讯在一份由CNBC翻译的声明中称，其“原生AI助手”小微正在微信中进行“小规模”测试。

Users can interact with Xiaowei with text or voice, communicate with friends and launch “mini-programs,” Tencent added. Mini-programs are apps that run inside of WeChat.

腾讯补充说，用户可以通过文字或语音与小微互动，与朋友交流，并启动“小程序”。小程序是运行在微信内部的应用程序。

Tencent executives have been mulling further integration of AI into WeChat since last year, with investors watching closely to see if this can be a new revenue stream and a way to monetize AI.

自去年以来，腾讯高管一直在考虑将人工智能进一步整合到微信中，投资者密切关注这是否能成为其新的收入来源和人工智能变现的途径。

一般是 mull sth over，表示“仔细思考，反复考虑”，英文解释为“to think carefully about something for a long time”举个🌰：I need a few days to mull things over before I decide if I'm taking the job. 在决定是否做这份工作前，我需要几天时间仔细考虑。

integration /ˌɪn.tɪˈɡreɪ.ʃən/ 表示“整合，融合”，英文解释为“the action or process of combining two or more things in an effective way”举个🌰：He creates a seamless integration of contemporary and historic images. 他完成了当代和历史图像的无缝整合。

英式 monetise 美式 monetize /ˈmʌn.ɪ.taɪz/ 1）表示“转化为货币；以货币方式表达”，英文解释为“to change something into money, or to express something in terms of money or a currency”举个🌰：Japan is monetizing several trillion dollars of government debt. 日本正把几万亿的政府债务货币化。

2）表示“从…赚钱”，英文解释为“to make money from something”举个🌰：The problem was how to monetize this kind of social networking site. 问题是如何从这样的社交媒体网站上赚钱。

WeChat and Weixin have more than 1.4 billion monthly active users combined, with the majority in China. It is an indispensable part of daily life in China, where people use the app to message friends, make payments, book restaurants and much more.

微信（含国际版WeChat与国内版Weixin）月活跃用户总数超过14亿，其中绝大多数来自中国。它已成为中国人日常生活中不可或缺的一部分，人们用它聊天、支付、订餐，功能远不止于此。

indispensable /ˌɪn.dɪˈspen.sə.bəl/ 表示“必不可少的，必需的”，英文解释为“Something or someone that is indispensable is so good or important that you could not manage without it, him, or her.”举个🌰：This book is an indispensable resource for researchers. 这本书是研究者必不可少的资料。

类似的：

📍essential 作形容词表示“至关重要的，必不可少的”（Something that is essential is extremely important or absolutely necessary to a particular subject, situation, or activity.）举个🌰：Even in small companies, computers are an essential tool. 即使在小公司里，计算机也是不可或缺的工具。

essential也可以指“最基本的；本质的”（the essential part, quality, or feature of something is the most basic one ），举个🌰：The essential difference between you and me was the fact that I took life seriously. 我和你的根本区别在于我是认真对待生活的。

📍fundamental 表示“根本的；基本的；基础的”（You use fundamental to describe things, activities, and principles that are very important or essential. They affect the basic nature of other things or are the most important element upon which other things depend.）举个🌰：We have to tackle the fundamental cause of the problem. 我们必须解决问题的根本原因。

此外，fundamental也有“必不可少的；十分重要的/必要的”的含义（If one thing is fundamental to another, it is absolutely necessary to it, and the second thing cannot exist, succeed, or be imagined without it.）举个🌰：Water is fundamental to survival. 水是生存所必需的。

By integrating an AI tool into an app with a huge user base, Tencent has an opportunity to capture a large number of them for its services.

将人工智能工具嵌入拥有庞大用户群的应用程序，腾讯有机会将其中大量用户转化为其服务的忠实使用者。

“Putting an assistant inside Weixin is the first time Tencent uses the advantage it has held all along, and that matters a lot,” Howard Yu, the LEGO professor of management and innovation at IMD, told CNBC by email.

IMD的LEGO管理与创新教授霍华德·余（Howard Yu）在给CNBC的邮件中写道：“在微信中植入一个助手，是腾讯首次动用其长期持有的优势，这至关重要。”

“A standalone chatbot gives you an answer. An assistant wired into Weixin completes the task. And it's this second advantage that no rival can copy,” Yu added.

他补充道：“独立的聊天机器人只能给出答案，而嵌入微信的助手却能直接完成任务。正是这第二个优势，让竞争对手无法复制。”

standalone /ˈstændəˌləʊn/ 表示“（计算机）独立运行的；（公司）独立的”，英文解释为“standalone software or a standalone computer works on its own without being part of a set, or without being connected to other computers”

wire /waɪər/ 作名词，1）表示“金属丝；金属线”，英文解释为“a piece of thin metal thread that can be bent, used for fastening things and for making particular types of objects that are strong but can bend”如：a wire fence 金属线栅栏。

2）表示“电线；导线”，英文解释为“(a piece of) thin metal thread with a layer of plastic around it, used for carrying electric current”举个🌰：Someone had cut the phone wires. 有人切断了电话线。

作动词，表示“为（电子设备）接上电线（或导线）”，英文解释为“to connect a piece of electrical equipment with wires so that it will work”举个🌰：The stereo wasn't working because it hadn't been wired up correctly. 立体声音响不响了，因为电线没有接好。

在这个语境中，意思是“接入”、“集成”或“打通”。

be wired to表示“与生俱来，生来……；天生，自然就会”，英文解释为“used to say that someone does or does not have a natural tendency to behave in a certain way, to like something, etc.”

📍2017年考研英语（二）阅读真题中有这么一句话：Infants are wired to look at parents’ faces to try to understand their world, and if those faces are blank and unresponsive—as they often are when absorbed in a device—it can be extremely disconcerting for the children. 婴儿天生会靠观察父母的面孔来理解世界，如果父母面无表情、毫无反应——当他们沉浸于电子设备时经常会这样——这会让孩子们感到非常不安。

类似的：

📍hard-wired表示“天生的，固有的；（能力、方法、活动类型等）基本固定的”，英文解释为“If an ability, approach, or type of activity is hardwired into the brain, it is a basic one and cannot be changed.”举个🌰：Others think that the rules for what is "musical" are hardwired in our brains to some degree. 其他人认为，我们的大脑对什么东西是“悦耳的”在某种程度上有其内在的标准。

📍he和be到底是什么意思？文中提到：This shows that the attraction to the final moments of an experience is hard wired in our brains, said the study, which was published in the Journal Of Neuroscience. 这项研究发表在《神经科学杂志》上，它表明，对经验的最后时刻的吸引在我们的大脑中是天生固有的。

The company did not give further details about the capabilities Xiaowei would have or what AI models it is based on.

腾讯并未透露小微的具体能力，也未说明其背后基于何种人工智能模型。

Tech companies are talking up the potential of so-called AI agents, which they see as digital assistants that are able to carry out complex tasks on a user's behalf across different apps and services.

科技公司正纷纷吹捧所谓“AI智能体”的潜力。它们将这种数字助手视为能代表用户，在不同应用程序和服务之间执行复杂任务的智能体。

The new AI assistant is part of a bigger move from Tencent to challenge rivals like Alibaba, DeepSeek and Zhipu in China, which has become an incredibly competitive AI market. This year, Tencent poached an OpenAI researcher to become its chief AI scientist.

这款新人工智能助手是腾讯更大棋局中的一步，旨在挑战阿里巴巴、深度求索和智谱等国内对手。如今的中国人工智能市场，竞争已趋白热化。今年，腾讯更从OpenAI挖来一位研究员，出任其首席人工智能科学家。

poach /pəʊtʃ/ 1）表示“挖走（人员）”，英文解释为“to persuade someone who works for someone else to come and work for you”举个🌰：They were furious when one of their best managers was poached by another company. 他们一个最好的经理被别的公司挖走了，他们很恼火。

2）表示“炖，水煮（鱼、荷包蛋等）”，英文解释为“to cook something such as a fish, or an egg with its shell removed, by putting it in gently boiling water or other liquid”举个🌰：We had poached eggs for breakfast. 我们早饭吃荷包蛋。

Tencent also develops its own family of models under the brand name Hunyuan.

此外，腾讯还自主研发了“混元”系列模型。

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