Doubao Work, ByteDance's artificial intelligence agent application, announced on October 29th that it is expanding its functionality by providing access to third-party models for business clients. The first group of integrated models includes Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro, Zhipu's GLM-5.3, and DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash. These models are now displayed in the application's model list alongside Doubao's proprietary models from ByteDance.
This update applies to team and enterprise subscription plans and is activated by default. Companies are not required to purchase separate access rights from each model developer or submit individual applications. Resource consumption is deducted from the AI credits that the organization already holds in Doubao Work.
Model Access Management
Administrators gain the ability to control which users can use a specific model. They can grant access to individual members, departments, groups, or the entire company. Furthermore, administrators can enable all models from one provider simultaneously or configure the use of a single specific model.
This move changes the positioning of Doubao Work. Previously, the application primarily served as a demonstration of ByteDance's Doubao models within an agent capable of interacting with files, browsers, and desktop applications. By allowing enterprises to direct tasks to competing Chinese models, the core product becomes the agent itself, rather than the underlying model. This also allows teams to choose a model based on the task type, such as using a coding-oriented model for engineering work and another model for handling long documents.
This development aligns with a broader trend among Chinese desktop agent products. This week, Xiaomi added DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, and Qwen models to its MiMo Desktop, and several other agent tools have made similar moves. For enterprise-level buyers, a unified billing system and standardized permissions for multiple model developers significantly simplify the procurement process, which previously required comparing solutions from different manufacturers.
Doubao Work is continuously expanding its feature set. In recent weeks, capabilities such as saving recorded computer actions as reusable skills, importing chat history, skills, and memory from other AI tools with a single click, and an infinite creative canvas have been added. The application also supports parallel agents and local graphical interface control on Mac.
ByteDance has not specified what other third-party models will follow this initial batch, describing the current composition as the first group of models joining the platform.
