🪦 Dead
Doubao & Qwen AI Agent Builders
Feature removed · Regulatory Action · shut down July 15, 2026
- Born
- Died
- Lifespan
- 2y 2m
- Cause of death
- Regulatory Action
- Killed by
- Chinese Government
- Type
- Service
ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen both killed their AI-agent creation features on the same day — July 15, 2026 — as China's Interim Measures for Anthropomorphic AI Interaction Services took effect. Every user-created agent stopped functioning, not just new creation. Two of China's biggest AI platforms amputated a flagship feature simultaneously under regulatory pressure.
Collateral damage: Millions of user-built agents across both platforms stopped working overnight, with no export or migration path.