The AI Office War Isn’t About AI. It’s About Making You Irreplaceable.
The AI office race isn’t about who has the smartest model—it’s about who can make you so dependent on their ecosystem that you can never leave. ByteDance just merged Feishu, TRAE, and Coze into a unified brand, betting that speed of integration beats perfection. Tencent, Alibaba, and Baidu are building their own lock-in traps. The winner will be the one that makes you forget you ever worked without it.