Tencent Maps Unveils LBSwork & Agent Capability Panorama for AI Location Services

Conference Announcement: LBSwork and Agent Capability Panorama

On October 30, 2026, at the Tencent Global Digital Ecology Conference in Shenzhen, Tencent Maps officially released LBSwork , a desktop AI map workbench, and published its Agent capability panorama , opening map, location, travel, and local services to AI agents and developers. Tencent Group Vice President and Tencent Smart Mobility President Zhong Xiangping stated that in the Agent era, map service delivery is shifting from human-initiated queries to intelligent agents proactively calling maps to understand environments, plan actions, and deliver services.

LBSwork: AI Map Workbench for Business Decisions

LBSwork is built on the WorkBuddy -derived Harness framework and deeply integrates Tencent Maps' spatiotemporal dynamic large model. It consolidates Tencent Location Services, location big data, and vertical industry knowledge to provide a one-stop "AI + Map" service for retail, tourism, and mobility sectors.

Expert Panel Across Seven Domains

LBSwork deploys specialized experts covering seven directions: retail site selection, marketing insights, crowd heatmaps, logistics fulfillment, and more.

Retail Site Selection: From Guesswork to Pre-Calculation

Yu Xiaodong, General Manager of Beijing Leshi Weiwang Network Technology, highlighted three traditional pain points: "guesswork, long chains, poor collaboration." With LBSwork, business staff can generate a dedicated site selection report with a single sentence, turning site selection from post-hoc explanation into pre-calculation. Brands such as Baodao , Weilai , and Xushengji are among the first experience customers.

Marketing Insights: Data-Driven Event Planning

Zhang Xiaoqing, Planning & Operations Director at Beijing Beichen Digital Technology, noted that for each exhibition and mall, organizers can now precisely compute "who came, where from, and how much they can spend," moving recruitment, planning, and post-event review beyond pure experience.

Gaia 2.0: Three-Layer Architecture

Tencent Maps Location Services General Manager Li Bin introduced Gaia 2.0 , the AI full-matrix product and capability platform, composed of:

Industry clients (top layer)

Tencent Maps LBSwork (middle layer)

Spatiotemporal Harness foundational base (bottom layer)

Li Bin emphasized: "Last year we answered how to build the platform; this year we answer what the customer ultimately gets." Gaia 2.0 aims to deliver tailored, efficient solutions for retail, tourism, and mobility verticals.

Smart Hardware Integration: Giving AI "Hands and Feet"

As intelligent services extend from phones to cars, glasses, and earphones, Tencent Maps provides continuous, consistent "hands and feet" capabilities — action execution in the physical world.

Automotive: Car Map Agent

Five coordinated agents — trip planning, map rendering, ecosystem content, intelligent piloting, and parking strategy — enable multi-day cross-city family itinerary planning with personalized restaurant recommendations, real-time complex traffic judgment using vehicle perception and lane-level data.

Wearables: AI Glasses and Earphones Native Ride-Hailing

Rokid AI Glasses : Industry-first native ride-hailing service. Users complete the full flow — hailing, vehicle selection, payment — via voice. Rokid's ecosystem R&D lead Yang Zhou noted Tencent Maps packaged the hardest-to-build capabilities (payment, map, travel, content) into standard components callable by glasses, chaining three capabilities in one invocation.

Guangfan AI Earphones : Co-launched industry-first AI earphone ride-hailing service. Co-founder Chen Kangda stated this moves AI from understanding needs to executing services, bridging the "last kilometer" of intelligent mobility. Guangfan plans to open its self-developed AI OS capabilities to more wearables.

Cross-Device Collaboration with HarmonyOS

Tencent Maps partners with OpenHarmony ecosystem for cross-device map capability flow. With Niu Electric , launched the industry-first HarmonyOS-based smart two-wheeler screen-projection navigation, fully open, enabling continuous navigation from phone to vehicle display.

Zhong Xiangping summarized: "We don't make hardware, but we want to be the 'hands and feet' for every intelligent hardware, letting partners focus on product innovation and letting intelligence reach every real travel scenario."

Agent Capability Panorama: Full Openness to Agents and Developers

As users increasingly express vague, early-stage travel needs to AI ("plan a weekend trip," "find a high-rated restaurant nearby"), Tencent Maps transformed its capabilities into AI-callable functions. The panorama lets AI provide an interactive map that users can open, view routes, ask follow-ups, and experience natively.

Integrated AI Assistants

Yuanbao : One-sentence route planning; one-sentence ride-hailing coming soon.

WeChat Xiaowei : AI+Map native experience across video accounts, chat, etc. Example: watching a store-planting video, one sentence locates the offline shop.

OPPO ColorOS : Co-created "1+N" intelligent agent collaboration mode, launching the industry-first system-level, memory-enabled full-scenario travel agent. Post-launch: travel planning reduced from 9 steps to one sentence; related scenario click-through doubled; next-day retention up nearly 1.5x.

Developer Openness via Agent-Friendly Interfaces

Through MCP Server, Agent Skills, and connectors, developers can equip applications with real-world understanding, route planning, place recommendation, and travel service invocation without zero-adaptation effort. Examples of developer-built tools:

AI utility for finding optimal meeting points for multiple people.

AI family-reunion assistant helping lost children and families reunite faster.

Scale and Vision

In the mobile internet era, Tencent Maps served WeChat, QQ, and numerous national-level apps. Today it processes over 100 billion location data points daily , supporting 10+ billion user location service requests . Entering the Agent era, Tencent Maps maintains its mission: "Build the base, build connections, build the ecosystem," committing to long-term openness to lay maps wider and deeper with partners.