Tencent Hunyuan released and open-sourced Hy4 preview on Aug. 28, a large language model with 770 billion total parameters, 49 billion activated parameters, and a context window exceeding 1 million to…
Tencent claims its Hunyuan 3.0 foundation model, with 295 billion parameters and deep integration into WeChat and its Yuanbao AI assistant, outperforms rivals in internal tests, positioning it against…
Tencent has unveiled Hy4 Preview, an open-source Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model, marking a significant escalation in China's AI arms race. The model, which builds on the previous Hy3's 295 billion tot…
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 second-quarter revenue of RMB204.8 billion ($30.4 billion), up 11% year over year, while capital expenditure surged 176% to RMB52.8 billion, according to MarketWatch. Th…
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 …
In Episode 6 of the AI Experiments series, all eight tested AI models — Doubao, Kimi, Yuanbao, DeepSeek, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok — unanimously chose value investing as their preferred invest…
China's Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomorphic Interactive Services took effect July 15, 2026, forcing ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent to remove personalized companion agents fro…
Chinese users of AI-powered companion bots are bidding farewell to their virtual partners as national regulations took effect Wednesday to curb emotional dependency. Major AI providers including ByteD…
China's Cyberspace Administration issued the Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomorphic Interactive Services on July 15, 2026, banning virtual intimate-relationship services for min…
China on Wednesday enforced sweeping regulations banning AI companion features, forcing tech giants including ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent to remove virtual relationship tools from their platforms.…
China, California, and New York have enacted laws restricting companion AI chatbots, citing risks of addiction, mental harm, and social disruption. China's new law, effective today, bans free user-bui…
China's Interim Measures for AI Anthropomorphic Interactive Services took effect July 15, banning AI behaviors that trigger 'strong emotional attachment or dependence,' forcing ByteDance's Doubao, Ali…
ByteDance has disabled Doubao's user-built agent feature, affecting 350 million monthly active users and over 8 million custom agents, after China's new Interim Measures for anthropomorphic AI interac…
ByteDance's Doubao, China's second most-used AI app with 350 million monthly active users, switched off its user-built agent feature at midnight Beijing time today, affecting over 8 million custom age…
Between late June and early July 2026, ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent removed AI companion features from their flagship consumer apps within two weeks, affecting over 8 million user-created agents on…
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…
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…