Xiaowei is a virtual assistant from Tencent, the $346 billion Chinese company that operates WeChat, a messaging app with 1 billion users, and one of the main tech ecosystems in China.^{[citation needed]} Xiaowei has weather reports, traffic updates, music requests, news snippets. There's voice recognition and facial recognition, and a "Skill platform" SDK for hardware developers to plug into.^[1][2]