Tencent Unveils China’s First Healthcare-Specific AI Skill on Longxia WorkBuddy
In a landmark move for AI-driven healthcare, Tencent Health has announced that Zhongkang Technology, a Hong Kong-listed AI healthcare enterprise, has officially joined the “Tencent Longxia” WorkBuddy platform — becoming its first medical and health vertical Skill partner.
Integrated Medical Intelligence: Dual-Model Powerhouse
Zhongkang has packaged its proprietary large language models and domain expertise into production-ready AI Skills:
- Zhuomu Niao Medical LLM: Ranked #1 on global medical LLM benchmarks MedBench and CMB, and maintaining top-3 position in the latest April 19 release.
- Tiangong-1 Decision LLM: Trained on 18 years of omnichannel healthcare data (retail, hospitals, health management centers), transforming complex market strategies into executable intelligent recommendations.
These models are now deployed as modular, task-specific Skills — with the first live capability being:
✅ “Drug Label Search” Skill — Converts dense, technical pharmaceutical information into plain-language, patient-friendly medication guidance. A critical step toward democratizing drug safety and adherence support.
Elderly chronic disease patients managing multiple medications
Scale & Reach: 410M+ Lives Connected
Founded in 2007, Zhongkang Technology is a data-native AI health services leader with deep ecosystem integration:
- 🔹 410 million consumers served
- 🔹 18,105+ secondary-and-above hospitals
- 🔹 5,000+ pharmacy chains and 10,993 retail pharmacies
- 🔹 500+ health examination centers
- 🔹 3,000+ pharmaceutical manufacturers
Its AI ecosystem already powers strategic collaborations with industry leaders including:
– Pharma: AstraZeneca, Novo Nordisk, CSPC Pharmaceutical Group
– Hospitals: Anhui Cancer Hospital, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine
– Health Providers: Meinian Onehealth Healthcare
The Zhuomu Niao model features:
– 🧠 70-billion-parameter architecture
– 📚 Trained on 1M+ public medical resources (guidelines, literature, textbooks, drug labels)
– 🏥 Enriched with 10M+ non-public clinical records and millions of expert-annotated cases
– ⚙️ Core algorithm: Zhuomu Niao Doctor Agent Health Management Generative Synthesis Algorithm
Zhuomu Niao maintains top-tier benchmark leadership
AI Healthcare Arms Race: Big Tech Enters the Clinic
While Zhongkang pioneers vertical integration with Tencent, major Chinese tech firms are rapidly deploying specialized medical AI tools:
| Company | Product | Key Capability |
|---|---|---|
| Baidu Health | Youyi Assistant | First Claw-based doctor task assistant — dual-engine “search + execution” for literature review, EHR drafting, and research support |
| Ant Group | Ant A-Fu | Connects 5,000+ hospitals, 300K+ doctors, serving 30M+ monthly active users, handling 10M+ daily queries |
| Alibaba Health | Hydrogen Ion | AI medical assistant for professionals — real-time summarization and Q&A across 10M+ medical documents |
| ByteDance | Xiaohe AI Doctor | Health consultation, lab report interpretation, precision triage — performance in common diseases matches tertiary hospital attending physicians |
| Meituan | Xiao Tuan Health Manager | Family-centric natural-dialogue health assistant — integrates symptom checking, medication guidance, and unified family health records |
Multi-player acceleration across clinical, consumer, and operational healthcare layers
This milestone marks the definitive shift from experimental AI pilots to production-grade, regulated, and scalable healthcare intelligence — where interoperability, clinical utility, and real-world adoption converge.
Source: “Zhiyaoju”, Author: Xiang Ran