Tencent grants a one-time free resource pack of 1,000,000 tokens on first activation of Hunyuan text generation, shared across eight named models including Hunyuan-a13b, Hunyuan-role-latest, Hunyuan-t…
Tencent Yuanbao, Tencent's free consumer AI assistant built on the Hunyuan family, has been added to the Uprouter directory, which rates it as medium risk. The current version serves the Hunyuan Hy4 p…
Tencent AI Studio, the company's free consumer web studio for its Hunyuan (Hy) model family, has been added to the Uprouter directory as an unofficial web-cookie integration using session cookies from…
Former OpenAI researcher Yonglong Tian has been named head of multimodal models for Tencent's Hunyuan team, according to a report. Tian joined Tencent in July after working at Google Research, Google …
WeChat, owned by Tencent, is testing a feature called Xiaowei AI Social that lets two AI assistants converse before their human owners intervene, targeting tasks like scheduling and meal coordination.…
China's AI race is shifting from model development to infrastructure and business sustainability, with Alibaba and Tencent pursuing contrasting strategies: Alibaba is rebuilding around AI infrastructu…
Tencent and Alibaba reported massive capital expenditures for AI infrastructure, with Tencent's quarterly capex reaching RMB 52.8 billion (up 176% year-over-year) and Alibaba's reaching RMB 67.7 billi…
Tencent Holdings Ltd. reported second-quarter 2026 results on August 12, with IFRS net profit of Rmb 56.0 billion missing the Reuters consensus of Rmb 61.8 billion, and the stock fell 4.46% in Hong Ko…
Tencent Holdings reported second-quarter revenue of 204.8 billion yuan, up 11% year-over-year, but net profit of 56.02 billion yuan missed analyst estimates of 58.51 billion yuan as capital expenditur…
Tencent Holdings reported an 11% rise in second-quarter revenue to 204.8 billion yuan ($30.36 billion), driven by AI-enhanced advertising and steady gaming income, but net profit rose only 0.7% to 56 …
The US lead over China in AI has essentially disappeared, according to an analysis of model releases and deployment trends. Chinese models like DeepSeek's R1 and V3 and Qwen now match or beat US open-…
A developer's analysis of open-source AI APIs versus self-hosting reveals that self-hosting costs are often underestimated, with hidden expenses like DevOps engineer time and monitoring making API cal…
Tuyaai launches an AI-powered sports and health management platform featuring calorie tracking, sleep analysis, and a fitness coach, alongside a suite of AI tools including note transcription, transla…
A developer who initially believed self-hosting open-source AI models was the obvious cost-saving move discovered the opposite after running detailed numbers. The engineer found that API-based open-we…
A coding bootcamp graduate discovered that open-source AI models like Qwen3 and DeepSeek offer comparable quality to GPT-4o at a fraction of the cost, with some models priced as low as $0.01 per milli…
Tencent is preparing an AI agent for WeChat, the app used by about 1.4 billion people, according to the Financial Times. The agent will work through WeChat's mini-apps and be accessible from a chat bo…
Generative AI for spatial content has rapidly evolved from basic 3D asset creation to interactive world models and AI-native CAD between May 2025 and June 2026, driven by releases from Meta, Google De…
Tencent has hired former OpenAI researcher Tian Yonglong to work on visual-language models, marking its second recruitment from OpenAI. Tian, who holds a PhD from MIT and previously worked at DeepMind…
A developer spent three weeks comparing AI API prices and found that the cheapest viable models are Apache 2.0 and MIT licensed models from China, not the well-known proprietary names. The analysis re…
Tencent is leveraging decentralized compute networks from Titan Network to cut AI infrastructure costs by up to 75%, as part of a broader strategy to regain its status as an AI innovator. The Chinese …