Weekly Dose of China Tech [08.24.2026]
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…
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…
Singhand Labs released Scrapewright, an open-source platform that uses an LLM to build deterministic scraping services from natural-language descriptions, then serves them via HTTP calls without incur…
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 Ltd. reported Q2 revenue of $30.3 billion, up 11 percent, and net profit of $10.3 billion, up 9 percent, while disclosing $53 billion in capital expenditure. President Martin Lau said…
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 …
Tencent Holdings Ltd.'s AI workplace assistant WorkBuddy has become China's most popular AI office agent with 20.97 million monthly visits as of June, beating ByteDance Ltd.'s Trae and Alibaba Group H…
Tencent has elevated its desktop AI office agent WorkBuddy to a top strategic priority, allocating increased advertising, computing power, and organizational resources, according to a report from IT T…
Tencent's WorkBuddy has become one of the company's highest-priority AI applications, with increased advertising, computing, and organizational resources, including outdoor ads in Beijing and Shenzhen…
A developer created ts-auntie-review, an Agent Skill that reviews TypeScript code with the persona of a Chinese neighborhood auntie, offering technical analysis across six dimensions and a 'Community …
Tencent has integrated its Hy3 large language model into the international edition of WorkBuddy, offering free access until Aug. 31, 2026, Pacific Time. Hy3 has 295 billion total parameters, 21 billio…
Tencent Cloud opened global access to its Hy3 reasoning model on August 5, integrating it into WorkBuddy, Tencent Design Miora, and Tencent Cloud TokenHub, alongside API access and downloadable weight…
Tencent opened its Hy3 large language model to global users on August 5, 2026, making it available through WorkBuddy, Miora, and Tencent Cloud TokenHub, with free access until August 31, 2026. Hy3, a …
Tencent Holdings rolled out its flagship artificial intelligence model Hy3 to global developers, enterprises, and users through WorkBuddy, Tencent Design Miora, and TokenHub, with free access on WorkB…
A developer at Tencent Cloud outlines a practical checklist for testing AI agents before granting them access to files and tools, emphasizing bounded tasks, permission scoping, and artifact verificati…
Tencent's office-agent platform WorkBuddy has become China's largest product in its category with 8.85 million monthly active users, according to a report from Chinese research firm Analysys. The AI a…
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 …
Tencent launched Hunyuan Hy3, a new reasoning model with 295 billion total parameters and 256K token context window, integrating it into products like WorkBuddy, Yuanbao, Marvis, and ima. The model is…
Tencent released Hy3, a 295 billion-parameter mixture-of-experts AI model, under the Apache 2.0 license on July 6th, offering two weeks of free API access via OpenRouter. The model, already integrated…