Doubao’s AI companions are gone. Users get 3 months to screenshot what is left.

ByteDance has shut down its AI companion service Doubao due to new AI regulations in Beijing, giving users three months to export or screenshot their data before it becomes inaccessible. Similarly, Alibaba discontinued its Qwen AI agents, removing user access to previous conversations without data portability options. These closures affect millions of users who had built personalized AI agents, many of whom valued the long-term conversational history that cannot be transferred to other platforms