ByteDance adds AI assistant to office tool Feishu, joining rivals Tencent and Alibaba in workplace chatbot race
- The generative AI bot Feishu Intelligent Buddy is being added to the office app to help users generate emails and spreadsheets or analyse PDFs
- The Feishu bot is able to work off a number of different large language models as rivals bake their own home-grown models into their office suites

“We’ve seen AI is changing the way we work and push for the evolution of our organisations,” Xie said during the announcement. “It’s critical for entrepreneurs to ensure their companies can quickly adapt to and get ready for the fast-moving era of artificial intelligence.”
With the new version of its office tool, ByteDance is introducing another chatbot in the form of an AI assistant dubbed Feishu Intelligent Buddy.
The company says the virtual assistant will be able to help users summarise meetings and unread messages, as well as analyse content from PDF documents, videos and audio files. It can also be used to draft many types of work documents, including emails, spreadsheets, mind maps and survey forms.
By way of example, Xie said he need only ask Feishu Buddy to generate a spreadsheet for an “inventory management system”, which can later be fine-tuned with requests for new fields and table adjustments.