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Qianwen Office 2.0 makes up for the most critical "shortcomings" of office agents.

"In the past few months, everyone has been working hard to prove that AI can do more and more work. But to be honest, just because one person can do the work, it does not mean that a group of people can collaborate." An industry insider who has been paying attention to AI office for a long time found that after trying out the mainstream AI office products on the market, there are still some "trouble" that cannot be avoided. The most typical one is that some tasks have to be done manually. "Agent can complete tasks independently, but it is difficult to handle the flow of tasks between people." Sometimes, after AI delivers the results, handing over between people takes more time and effort than the Agent doing the step itself. If AI office wants to fight To B, it must face up to this dilemma. When it comes to AI, companies really care about two things: one is personal productivity, whether AI can do more work for employees; the other is organizational productivity, whether AI can reduce information loss and duplication of work in team collaboration. In the past few months, AI office has overcome many obstacles in personal productivity, but there is still a long way to go in terms of organizational productivity. On November 9, Qianwen Office released version 2.0, launching the industry's first "collaboration" function that supports multi-person collaboration with Agents, and announced on its official blog that it is moving into the Team Agent era. It wants to respond to the above-mentioned problems: How can the enterprise's organizational productivity keep up with the improvement of individual productivity? 01 How to join the team collaboration in "Qianwen Xiao Q"? The domestic AI office craze has lasted for nearly half a year. Product competition in the C-end market is becoming increasingly fierce, while the challenges in the B-end market go far beyond simply selling products to companies. From a product perspective, with the emergence of overseas Personal Agent products such as Muse, Cue, and Dots, the capabilities of personal AI are rapidly being broadened, and enterprise-level AI is also being pushed to higher expectations. AI office factory

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Entertainment

‘A three-minute history of England written in the tour bus toilet’: how Tenpole Tudor made Swords of a Thousand Men

‘Dressed as knights, we’d walk onstage to the sound of the William Tell overture. I’d quote Henry V and the crowd would shout, “You’re the rightful king of England!”’ I’d worked up the basic idea on Stiff Records’ three-month tour of the northern hemisphere. It’s near-impossible to write songs on the road because you lack the basic solitude, so I’d retire to the tour coach latrine. The melody was really a boogie-blues progression, part-inspired by Norman Greenbaum’s Spirit in the Sky and Canned Heat’s On the Road Again. But lyrics only flowed when we came off the tour. Rehearsing near our favo

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Sports

Felix Nmecha’s faith is forcing Borussia Dortmund into an uncomfortable debate

Midfielder’s spectacular strikes rescued a frustrating day, only for celebrations to reignite dialogue that has followed him through his career It was just what they needed at just the right time. For a tricky first half and beyond, Elversberg had been a stone in Borussia Dortmund’s shoe, the promoted side not just keeping the home team at bay but keeping them honest, nourishing ambitions of their own. “The fatigue was clearly visible,” the sporting director, Ole Book, said to Sky after a week which had contained Der Klassiker in Munich and a hard-fought Champions League victory against Betis.

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Politics

Thames Water asks creditors for more time to help repay £20bn debt pile

Troubled utility lobbies for deadline on part of the debt to be extended to March 2028 Thames Water has asked creditors for more time to pay back billions of pounds in debt, as the water company scrambles to keep itself afloat. The UK’s largest water company said it had proposed an “interim” deal under which the deadline to pay off an unspecified portion of the £20bn of debt on its balance sheet would be extended from 2027 to March 2028. Continue reading...

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