Qwen Office2.0 adds shared workspaces for teams and agents

Alibaba released Qwen Office 2.0 on November 9, adding shared workspaces where teammates can discuss work, assign it to AI and continue with the resulting materials. Its official release notes describe a dedicated digital employee for each space, using materials, discussions and agreed decisions to advance projects and organize to-dos.

A workspace can connect relevant DingTalk group chats, meeting records, documents and tables. Linking a group and inviting its members into a workspace are separate operations. An ordinary group member needs the group administrator’s approval to authorize reading its contents. Connected sources become usable context after processing completes.

The update adds event-triggered work alongside scheduled execution. Tasks watch up to ten changes to DingTalk messages, approvals or to-dos. Sender, group and content filters support all-condition or any-condition matching.

Tasks can run in the cloud or on the user’s computer. Cloud execution handles online resources and connectors; computer execution accesses local files and desktop applications. Local work requires the computer to remain awake with the client running. Each automatic run creates its own conversation, records the process and results, and consumes credits like a manual conversation.

Editing originals within existing permissions

Users can open material beside a conversation, select a passage or table region and send editing requests. DingTalk documents and AI tables are updated in place under their existing permissions. Documents retain their native history and recovery mechanisms. Supported editors highlight AI additions and changes. A user can also save a manual edit and ask AI to continue from that revised version. Selecting content identifies the target; sending a request starts processing.

The materials space collects generated files, uploads and online documents used during work. Selected items can become input for a new conversation; background and constraints from the previous conversation must be supplied separately. Local originals stay on the computer that produced them. Listing a file in the materials space does not itself create a cloud backup. Online documents keep their original sharing and editing permissions. Web conversations accept up to nine referenced items. Organization-wide sharing of ordinary files provides eligible members online viewing, excluding copying and downloads; recipients remain subject to the configured access scope.

The newly released mobile app provides a way to follow computer tasks and send further instructions from a phone. Both devices must use the same account and organization, with remote control enabled on the original computer. That computer performs the work. Phone and web users can answer task questions and confirmations; operating-system permission dialogs require action on the computer itself.

Feature access varies by version, organization and account. Collaboration spaces are organization-based and require a desktop browser on the web. Direct local Office editing is available in desktop versions where that capability has been enabled.

Remote work requires the original computer online, awake and running Qwen Office. Closing the control page does not stop a task. Tasks have separate stop and connection controls. The release notes also let enterprise super-administrators prohibit client remote control through the security center.