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- § 01 · AI-GOVERNANCE
Reverse Interoperability: Li Wenlong's Frame for the Doubao On-Device Agent Fight
ByteDance's Doubao phone assistant — preinstalled at the device layer to operate other apps on a user's behalf — was met with pop-up blocks from WeChat and others citing security and risk-control. Li Wenlong (科技利维坦) argues the dispute is, at bottom, a question of how China's competition-law toolkit (反不正当竞争法 / 反垄断法) absorbs the idea of interoperability — and specifically what he calls 'reverse interoperability (反向互操作性)'. The classic interoperability problem is a platform refusing to open up, with antitrust used as a market remedy to force access. Doubao inverts it: interoperability is fully achieved at the device level, and the legal question becomes whether the law should restrict 'over-interoperation.' Li maps interoperability's journey from the Microsoft case through GDPR data portability and the DMA to the agent era, distinguishes the Doubao fight from the decade-old 3Q War, and predicts on-device-agent governance will look less like classic antitrust and more like the ex-ante, conditional-use compliance model emerging for AI training data. For overseas counsel: a structural read on the platform-access war that on-device AI agents are about to intensify.