Researchers tracked a Chinese AI 'agent fleet' running on Tencent infrastructure, targeting Amap

Independent researchers released preliminary findings, claiming that a 'fleet' of AI agents was running on Tencent infrastructure and launched queries against Alibaba's map service Amap (Gaode), requesting routes to different entrances of public places such as parks, zoos, and hospitals. The researchers declined to use the term 'swarm,' emphasizing that these parallel agents performed similar tasks but showed no signs of communication with each other. The activity was discovered by monitoring traffic of the domain scanning service URLquery, and this method had previously revealed long-term activity of OpenAI agents.