# Tencent Real-Time Communication (Tencent RTC) becomes an officially supported edge transport plugin for Vision Agents.

*genai · news · 2026-05-19 · The Manila Times*

## Key points

- Tencent Cloud and Stream announced a strategic collaboration to advance real-time multimodal AI agents.
- Tencent RTC is now an officially supported edge transport plugin for the open-source Vision Agents framework.
- Developers can use Tencent RTC to achieve sub-300ms worldwide latency and improved weak-network resilience in Asia.
- Integration with Tencent RTC requires no changes to existing LLM, STT, TTS, vision, or avatar plugins.
- Vision Agents supports running models like YOLO and Gemini on every frame with sub-500ms latency.

**Companies:** Tencent, Stream
**Countries:** China, United States

[Read the full story on The Manila Times](https://www.manilatimes.net/2026/05/19/tmt-newswire/pr-newswire/tencent-cloud-and-stream-partner-to-accelerate-the-development-of-real-time-multimodal-ai-agents/2346720)

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