Break out of the "smart trap". In the second half of AI-powered office work, the competition is about who knows better.

AI has become a standard feature in office software, and the industry has fallen into a seemingly bustling but inefficient involution. The "all - powerful AI" often struggles to adapt when integrated into business processes - it fails to understand business language, cannot fill in real - world processes, and cannot handle critical data.

The deeper crisis lies in the fact that AI - powered office work is at a turning point: the linear collaboration between humans is being replaced by the exponential collaboration between humans and Agents, and even between Agents themselves. When a single trigger from an Agent can lead to hundreds of thousands of data updates, traditional spreadsheet engines are facing a real data flood - this is not a future imagination but an ongoing reality.

On April 22nd, the brand - new WPS Multidimensional Spreadsheet was launched in Wuhan with the theme "Full - linkage · Grand Collaboration". Kingsoft Office has provided a way out of the involution: AI is not simply a general large - scale model grafted onto spreadsheets, but an expert that emerges naturally from the real - world office scenarios of millions of organizational users day after day.

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How to play the second half of AI - powered office work?

Current AI - powered office products have a common "intelligence trap": software vendors compete in terms of model parameters and the number of functions, but users feel that "the AI understands the instructions but cannot get the job done". The embarrassment of general large - scale models in spreadsheet scenarios is particularly prominent - it might be acceptable if document AI writes a paragraph off - topic, but miscalculating an account or deleting a row of data in a spreadsheet has irreversible consequences. Users' tolerance for AI results in spreadsheet scenarios is much lower than in other office scenarios.

The current competitive landscape of the multidimensional spreadsheet market generally unfolds along the ecological logic of their respective parent platforms: DingTalk Spreadsheet has an advantage in integrating approval flows within its IM ecosystem, while Feishu Multidimensional Spreadsheet excels in the depth of collaboration within its own system. WPS Multidimensional Spreadsheet takes a different path - instead of creating a "heavier system", it focuses on creating a "lighter application". For large enterprises, it fills the gaps in lower - level business scenarios that existing systems cannot cover; for small and medium - sized enterprises, a single spreadsheet can replace a full - set of lightweight systems from order management to production scheduling.

This path is chosen based on the judgment of the industry's turning point. In the era of AI Agents, data growth has changed from linear to exponential, and traditional standalone spreadsheet engines will collapse instantly under such a load. WPS has self - developed a brand - new multidimensional spreadsheet engine, which can achieve a stable 32 - millisecond response time under the extreme load of one million rows of data. This is not just a performance figure but the bottom line for whether the data foundation can stand firm in the Agent era.

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Scenario - native AI: Return efficiency to every business person

There are three thresholds in AI - powered office work: not knowing how to use it, it being difficult to use, and not daring to use it. The breakthrough of WPS Multidimensional Spreadsheet lies in a complete change of perspective - standing in the shoes of business people and removing all these thresholds.

The first threshold, "not knowing how to use it", is solved by "AI one - click table creation". Users do not need to learn operation paths. They only need to describe their requirements in daily language, and the AI will automatically understand the underlying business logic and generate a complete spreadsheet with one click. When users' descriptions are unclear, the AI will actively ask questions and guide users to fill in details, achieving true "intention recognition".

The second threshold, "being difficult to use", is solved by the "field plugin store". Traditional AI needs to be repeatedly invoked and is rigid and disjointed in business processes. WPS makes AI capabilities an integral part of the spreadsheet structure - as an "AI field" that can work automatically, it runs synchronously with the business.

WPS Multidimensional Spreadsheet pre - makes the general AI capabilities of various industries into standardized plugins, which users can call with one click. More importantly, experts within the enterprise can create exclusive AI plugins, input company specifications and business rules, and distribute them to all employees with one click. The prompts written by individuals become the standardized processes of the organization; the AI capabilities polished once can be replicated across the entire enterprise.

The third threshold, "not daring to use it", is solved by "AI - generated scripts + manual review". This is the most unique move in the entire industry. The traditional AI - spreadsheet interaction is a "black box": users ask questions, and the AI returns results. The process is invisible, untraceable, and irreversible. WPS Multidimensional Spreadsheet's approach is completely different - the AI does not directly operate on data but generates an executable script. Users can review each step of the logic and run it after confirming its accuracy.

This is equivalent to putting a "deterministic shell" on the AI. The AI is responsible for generating solutions, humans are responsible for review and confirmation, and the script is responsible for precise execution, fundamentally eliminating the risk of data hallucinations. As Yang Ding, the R & D leader of WPS Multidimensional Spreadsheet at Kingsoft Office, said: "AI is always the co - pilot, and it is humans who control the direction."

After solving these three thresholds, WPS Multidimensional Spreadsheet offers something truly beyond expectations: AI Team multi - role collaboration.

It distills industry experience into preset AI roles - such as buyers, quality inspectors, and production planners - each with its own independent permission boundaries, business context, and available tools. A complex business is broken down into a group of collaborating AIs that work together in the same spreadsheet to automatically complete the entire business chain.

For example, when the buyer AI notices that the inventory is below the safety line, it will automatically initiate a replenishment suggestion; after receiving the goods, the quality inspector AI will retrieve historical quality inspection data for comparison and decide whether to conduct stricter sampling inspections. The two AIs communicate in the same spreadsheet, so the buyer knows the inspection results and the quality inspector knows the procurement progress. Finally, the human supervisor can confirm with one click.

"We don't distill people; we distill industry know - how," Yang Ding summarized. A truly organizational - level productive AI is not an "all - powerful god" that does everything but a set of AI gears that perform their respective duties and fit together precisely.

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From a spreadsheet tool to a business collaboration foundation

When AI moves from functions to scenarios and from technology to business, its value becomes tangible, quantifiable, and replicable in terms of efficiency improvement. The practice of Jilin University of Finance and Economics in teacher position competition and personnel management is the most typical example of "scenario - native AI".

At the press conference, Teacher Zhang Zhicheng, the head of the guidance department of the Digital - Intelligence Integration and Education Quality Monitoring Center at Jilin University of Finance and Economics, shared their story. The core difficulties in university personnel management are multiple processes, high rigor, strong collaboration, and low tolerance for errors. In the traditional model, offline form filling, manual verification, paper - based circulation, and repeated submissions have created data silos among the personnel department, student affairs department, and information center. "In the past, when teachers applied for positions, they had to fill out many forms, and we had to verify them repeatedly. If one step got stuck, the whole process would be interrupted," Zhang Zhicheng recalled.

With the help of WPS Multidimensional Spreadsheet, Jilin University of Finance and Economics has achieved "linkage" at four levels: the data connector connects to the school's MySQL data center, and teachers' basic information is automatically synchronized; the two - level review mechanism allows department heads and functional departments to perform their respective duties; the AI automatically recognizes, reads, and extracts information from various achievement attachments and conducts multi - dimensional horizontal comparisons of applicants; after the review is completed, the data is automatically written back to the school's data center, forming a complete closed - loop.

"The 80% efficiency improvement is a real figure," Zhang Zhicheng said. This system covers 53 first - level review units, processes more than 3,000 teacher achievements, and supports core business such as performance appraisal, position competition, and title evaluation. For universities, WPS Multidimensional Spreadsheet is not just a tool but a lightweight, safe, and reliable digital governance system that enables data flow, departmental communication, process flow, and decision - making flow.

This is not an isolated case. Kuse Group has built a unified enterprise data center through WPS Multidimensional Spreadsheet, achieving full - link collaboration among OMS, MES, and APS and connecting the entire manufacturing chain; the Mudanjiang State - owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission has used WPS Multidimensional Spreadsheet as a data connector to cover employee information management, compliance auditing, and attendance monitoring, compressing a three - day manual summary into two hours; Hohhot First People's Hospital has applied WPS Multidimensional Spreadsheet to scheduling management, generating duty schedules with one click and improving efficiency by 60%.

From universities to manufacturing, from government to healthcare, from central and state - owned enterprises to small and medium - sized private enterprises, WPS Multidimensional Spreadsheet is being re - positioned from a "spreadsheet tool" to a "business collaboration foundation". On the mobile phone of an inspector, it is a voice reporting entry; on the computer of a manager, it is a real - time updated dashboard; in front of customers, it is a self - service order - querying webpage. WPS Multidimensional Spreadsheet is no longer just a spreadsheet but a "business entry" that can connect everything.

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Why WPS Multidimensional Spreadsheet?

In the second half of the AI - powered office competition, it's not about whose model has more parameters but who can calculate faster, run more stably, and be closer to the business.

At the AI engine level, Kingsoft Office has deeply integrated the general large - language model with its years - long accumulated spreadsheet expert knowledge base. Its self - developed new spreadsheet AI engine, Qingqiu Agent, ranks second globally in the globally authoritative test set SpreadsheetBench, only after Google Gemini, which is the highest global ranking achieved by a Chinese team in this field.

Having an excellent model is not enough; being fast and stable in calculation is the key. Under the conditions of one million rows of data and thousands of concurrent connections, the average editing response time of WPS Multidimensional Spreadsheet's new engine is as low as 32 milliseconds. In actual combat, the daily views of the Heilongjiang Traffic Police's highway traffic information spreadsheet exceed 800,000, and during the peak period of the university student information self - check spreadsheet, more than 500 people edit it simultaneously, and the engine remains stable.

What really makes WPS "understand the business" is the practical experience accumulated from 678 million globally monthly active devices. Based on the global networked device data from institutions such as IDC and Counterpoint, this means that one out of every 12 networked devices uses WPS. The continuous accumulation of massive business scenarios allows WPS to better understand the real needs of various industries.

"We serve a wide range of industries, and many of China's top 500 enterprises are using WPS Multidimensional Spreadsheet," Li Hongling, the operation leader of WPS Multidimensional Spreadsheet, introduced at the sharing meeting. "We solve real - world business problems based on our customers' needs."

Kingsoft Office's 38 - year - long accumulation of in - depth understanding of spreadsheets, data, processes, permissions, and organizational collaboration is reflected in every interaction detail. This is a know - how barrier that competitors cannot replicate in the short term.

In terms of the ecosystem, WPS Multidimensional Spreadsheet's open - source capabilities are at the forefront of the industry: in 2025, the number of APIs increased by 175%, it supports the MCP protocol, and four plugin systems are open. This openness is not only a technical ability but also a product philosophy - WPS does not require users to be trapped in its own system but provides connectors to connect everything. The ultimate form of the multidimensional spreadsheet is not "a better spreadsheet" but a unified entry for various business data in the enterprise.

In the first half of AI - powered office work, the competition is about who is smarter; in the second half, it's about who understands the business better.

The answer given by WPS Multidimensional Spreadsheet is: don't be an "all - knowing god" but be a "gear" that is closest to the customer's business. When technology returns to scenarios, when intelligence returns to efficiency, and when AI moves from dialog boxes to business chains, AI - powered office work will truly enter the next generation.