I have been tracking what Chinese tech companies are building in the AI space for a while now, and I want to share one that caught my attention. It is called Marvis, from Tencent’s Application Baozheng team.
Most AI assistants I come across either live in a browser or require some kind of technical setup before they actually do anything useful. Marvis is different in that it sits at the OS level. It reads files on your computer, operates installed software, and can even read on-screen UI elements via OCR before automating clicks. That puts it in a different category than a chat interface.
Here is what actually made me pause and look more closely. It has six built-in agents that run continuously: PM, operations, app specialist, web specialist, asset manager, and search expert. I will be honest, the fact that the product description itself notes you can see them “gaming on the job” in their activity logs is the kind of honest framing I appreciate. These are tools, not magic, and the team behind Marvis seems to understand that.
On the practical side, there are two features I think actually solve real problems. The C drive cleanup tool walks through risks before confirming any deletion, which saves you from that moment of panic when you realize you just wiped the wrong folder. And the natural language file search means you can say something like “find that meme of Guan Yu listening to music,” and it actually finds it, then offers to convert it to PDF. That sounds small until you have spent twenty minutes trying to remember where you saved something.
There is a privacy mode that switches to a local model so nothing leaves your device. For anyone working with sensitive information, that option matters even if the implementation details would need to be verified in practice.
The free tier is generous: ten million tokens per day, with local mode free permanently. No invite code needed right now. Windows, Mac, and Android are available now; iOS is in development.
I am not going to sit here and tell you this is the best AI tool you will use all year. That is not how I approach anything I recommend. What I will say is that the OS-level integration approach is the right direction for this kind of tool, the pricing makes it easy to try without commitment, and it is worth keeping an eye on as it develops. The gap between feature lists and real performance is always where these products either prove themselves or do not.
Give it a shot at marvis.qq.com and form your own opinion. That is the only honest way to evaluate anything.
