A survey paper by Tencent and Chinese universities argues AI systems must finish entire tasks in persistent work environments, not just generate answers, to become reliable coworkers. The key is combi…
Developer Rand01ph released GemmaTrans, an on-device translation app for macOS built with MLX-Swift, supporting Google Gemma 4 and Tencent Hy-MT2 models fully offline. The app provides a local HTTP AP…
Tencent is launching an AI assistant called Dayuan inside its enterprise collaboration tool WeCom, powered by DeepSeek's large language models. The tool can understand user requests and respond intell…
DeepSeek has accelerated recruitment for a new Harness team to build agent workflows, and is exploring self-built compute facilities in Inner Mongolia, following a Series A funding round exceeding 50 …
European generative and agentic AI startups have raised €20bn since 2024, with €8bn secured in 2026, as investor focus shifts from growth to durability, according to Sifted. Tencent's Dr Ling Ge and f…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek plans to at least double its staff of roughly 170 after raising $7.4 billion in its first external funding round, one of the largest ever for a Chinese startup. The round, …
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney advocates for interconnected game economies and transferable in-game items to help new games succeed, citing upcoming Unreal Engine 6 features. He argues that major develope…
Tencent is internally testing an AI agent called Dayuan for its enterprise communication platform WeCom, which reads users' chats, emails, and calendar data to provide context-aware assistance without…
Tencent has begun internal testing of Xiaowei, an AI assistant embedded in WeChat that accepts text and voice input to execute tasks across the app's mini-program ecosystem, with a public rollout targ…
Tencent has begun testing an AI assistant named Xiaowei inside WeChat, allowing users to perform tasks via text or voice commands. The company plans a public rollout in Q3, aiming to turn the super ap…
Liontrust Global Technology Fund has nearly doubled its China exposure from 6% to 11%, rotating profits from US tech giants like Nvidia and Apple into Chinese internet companies such as Tencent, Meitu…
Tencent is testing an AI agent inside WeChat that can complete tasks across mini-programs, leveraging the super app's 1.4 billion users and existing service ecosystem. The agent aims to integrate AI i…
Tencent is conducting limited internal tests of an AI assistant called Xiaowei inside WeChat, allowing users to send messages, make voice calls, and navigate mini-programs via text and voice commands.…
Titan Network, a decentralized physical infrastructure network, has aggregated 4 million consumer devices globally to supply complete video datasets for AI training, claiming up to 75% cost reduction …
DeepSeek raised $7.4 billion in its first external funding round, valuing it above $50 billion, but the deal structure gives China's National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund direct eq…
DeepSeek raised $7.4 billion in Series A funding led by Tencent, with CATL as a major investor, signaling a shift in Chinese AI funding toward non-ecosystem players as Alibaba and ByteDance sat out. T…
Chinese investors including HSG, ZhenFund, and Tencent are in talks to buy back AI startup Manus from Meta for $2 billion, the same price Meta paid six months ago, after Beijing mandated the deal's un…
Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft and CEO of Guillemot Corporation, died at 69 in a plane crash near La Baule, France, on June 19. He and a flight instructor were killed when their Cessna 421 cr…
Both U.S. and Chinese AI firms are expanding in Singapore, positioning the city-state as a potential neutral AI hub. OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and Tencent have established operations there, …
Five Chinese AI labs—ByteDance, Tencent, MiniMax, Alibaba, and Xiaomi—cut token prices by 50% to 99% within the same competitive window, driven by narrowing capability differences between major AI mod…