China Telecom's office AI agent, TeleAgent, has passed 1.5 million registered users and over 200,000 daily active users (DAUs), a steep acceleration from just 27,000 registered users in mid-June. Liu Guiqing, Executive Director, President and Chief Operating Officer of China Telecommunications Corporation, announced the milestone at the opening of PT Expo China 2026. The product was first unveiled at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) 2026. The rapid adoption matters because it demonstrates that AI agents are transitioning from experimental tools to essential enterprise platforms, with significant implications for productivity, security, and the future of work.
"TeleAgent marks the shift of AI from understanding what is said to getting things done," said Liu Guiqing. China Telecom sees the 1.5 million-user milestone as evidence that autonomous AI agents capable of end-to-end task execution are moving into large-scale enterprise adoption. This shift could fundamentally change how businesses operate, moving beyond simple chatbots to systems that autonomously handle complex workflows.
TeleAgent is built by China Telecom AI Technology Co. (TeleAI) as a native AI application for the workplace, serving individual professionals, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and large state-owned conglomerates. An enterprise SaaS edition supports multi-device collaboration and scenario customisation, while a private-deployment edition released in mid-August keeps models and data entirely within customers' local, sovereign environments. This dual approach addresses both flexibility and the growing demand for data sovereignty.
Its skill marketplace has expanded from roughly 40,000 to more than 50,000 skills—99% of which were built directly by end users solving real-world productivity challenges, reflecting a highly active user-generated ecosystem. This organic growth suggests strong product-market fit and a community-driven innovation model that could outpace traditional top-down development.
TeleAgent runs natively on Windows, macOS and leading Chinese enterprise operating systems including Kylin OS and UnionTech OS (UOS), requiring no complex server setup for individual users. Users can simply drag and drop files into the workspace and let the agent handle end-to-end execution. Early users are seeing tangible business impact. In an in-depth survey of key enterprise pilot and power users, 90% reported that the agent has become integral to their daily routines, with document drafting, industry research and automated data analysis accounting for more than half of all usage. Seventy-nine percent cited significant productivity gains, and 35% noted the tool exceeded expectations. TeleAgent scored a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 62.9. Among the 74% of surveyed respondents who had previously utilized rival platforms, 89% rated TeleAgent on par with market leaders, while 16% rated it superior.
Real-world deployments demonstrate dramatic workflow compression. A consulting analyst noted that a recurring quarterly task—previously requiring exports of over 20 reports from five disparate systems and half a day of manual data cleaning and charting—now takes five minutes: users upload raw data, state objectives, and receive finalized reports with interactive charts. Within China Telecom, a regional sales and channel operations unit leveraged the agent during a major commercial campaign to cut daily cross-system consolidation from hours to minutes, automating report distribution entirely. Such efficiency gains could translate into significant cost savings and competitive advantages for enterprises.
China Telecom frames TeleAgent's competitive edge around three core pillars: Security, Efficiency, and Results. Security is built from the ground up with carrier-grade protection, implementing a four-layer defence loop covering perception, reasoning, execution and memory. A lightweight security sandbox strictly isolates file access. The product has achieved certifications by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) and cleared 99.7% of the 336 threat evaluation scenarios conducted by QiAnXin and other leading security vendors. Efficiency leverages China Telecom's own Xingchen multimodal foundation model and its integrated "five-in-one" intelligent cloud, pioneering "Token-based operations" with an intelligent model router and context compression. Results are tuned for Chinese-language workplace workflows, with persistent long-term memory. In IDC's technical evaluation, TeleAgent scored 6.85 and ranked in the top three nationwide.
TeleAgent serves as the enterprise flagship for China Telecom's unified group-wide agent architecture, centered on the "Xing Xiaochen" agent hub. To date, China Telecom has integrated ecosystem capabilities across navigation, corporate travel, lifestyle, and weather, with 60 agent applications from 44 external partners undergoing technical integration. Looking forward, China Telecom aims to extend these agentic capabilities across broader enterprise ecosystems, partnering through China Telecom Global to empower multinational organizations with secure, localized, and intelligent digital transformation. As reported by Media OutReach Newswire, the milestone underscores a broader industry trend toward autonomous AI agents becoming integral to enterprise operations.
