ByteDance launches Feishu 8.0 and Doubao Work Companion, its first team agent product
量子位 · wechat · 2026-09-15
At the 2026 Feishu conference, ByteDance launched Feishu 8.0 and Doubao Work Companion, a systematic "Feishu for agents" overhaul and China's first team-agent product, benchmarked against Anthropic's Claude-in-Slack form factor.
Key points:
- CEO Liang Rubo said agents, models, and collaboration environments must be tightly fused; ByteDance reorganized to merge Doubao, Feishu, and Volcano Engine
- Feishu 8.0: add agents like colleagues, @ to delegate, multi-agent collaboration, full access to messages/docs/tables/approvals, permissions identical to the invoking user, admin controls and usage caps
- Doubao Work Companion: joins groups for parallel multi-person tasks, pulls context across groups/docs/meetings, works proactively 24/7 (e.g., auto-diagnosing overnight bugs), retains team know-how with enterprise-grade control
- Three-layer security: in-house model training, enterprise agent governance, native Feishu permissions and watermarking — pitched against uncontrolled personal AI tools
- H1 2026: Feishu ARR grew 2.5x YoY, 90%+ of new customers bought AI products, and 40%+ cited native agent support as their key selection criterion.
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