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| Developer(s) | Tencent Holdings Limited | ||||||||||||
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| Initial release | January 21, 2011 | ||||||||||||
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| Development status | Active | ||||||||||||
| Operating system | Cross-platform | ||||||||||||
| Available in | Multilingual (52) | ||||||||||||
| Type | Instant messaging client | ||||||||||||
| License | Freeware, proprietary | ||||||||||||
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www weixin |
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| iOS | 6.5.6 / March 27, 2017 |
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| macOS | 2.2.1 / March 23, 2017 |
| Android | 6.5.4 / March 8, 2017 |
| Windows 10 Mobile, Windows Phone 8 | 6.0.8 |
| Symbian V3 | 4.2 / February 4, 2013 |
| Symbian V5 | 4.2 / January 17, 2013 |
| Android | 6.5.7 / March 30, 2017 |
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WeChat (Chinese: 微信; pinyin: 
Wēixìn; literally: "micro-message") is a Chinese social media (instant messaging, commerce and payment services) mobile application software developed by Tencent. It was first released in 2011 and by 2017 it was one of the largest standalone messaging apps by monthly active users, with over 963 million monthly active users. It is known as China's "App For Everything" with its many functions and platforms.
In 2017, Wechat started to develop an augmented reality (AR) platform for its ever-expanding services. Its artificial intelligence (AI) team is working on its own 3D rendering engine to create realistic appearance on detailed objects, in smartphone-based AR apps. They’re also developing a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) technology, which helps calculate the position of virtual objects relative to their environment, enabling AR interactions without the need for markers, such as QR code or a special image.
WeChat began as a project at Tencent Guangzhou Research and Project center in October 2010. The original version of the app, "Weixin", was invented by Xiaolong Zhang, and named by Ma Huateng, Tencent CEO and was first launched in 2011. The government has actively supported the development of the e-commerce market in China—for example in the 12th five-year plan (2011–2015).
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