DeepSeek funding round nears 80 billion yuan, sources say
Bloomberg reports DeepSeek's new funding round may near 100 billion yuan, with Tencent and CATL leading as the AI firm preps for an early 2027 listing.
Tencent News and Analysis
11 verified stories covering Tencent, product updates and industry developments.
Tencent Leases 100,000 AI Chips From Oracle in $7B, Five-Year Deal
Tencent has signed a five-year, roughly $7 billion lease with Oracle for about 100,000 advanced AI chips housed in Southeast Asia, per a new report.
Tencent Music launches MusicBuddy, an AI tool for musicians
Tencent Music has launched MusicBuddy, an invite-only AI platform where musicians edit and release songs through chat commands in a DAW-style editor.
WeChat Pay Gives AI Agents Their Own Card, Unlocks 700 Paid Skills
WeChat Pay's AI-only card now works with DeepSeek Harness and OpenClaw, letting agents pay for 700+ Skillhub skills from a capped, isolated balance.
WeChat's Open-Source Multimodal Embedding Model Tops MMEB-v2
Tencent's WeChat team open-sourced WeMM-Embedding, a multimodal embedding model whose 2B version tops the MMEB-v2 leaderboard, beating rivals four times its size.
Tencent AI capex jumps to RMB52.8B
Tencent's second-quarter report shows AI moving from product demos into capex, cash flow and WeChat-scale deployment tests.
Tencent-led group moves to buy back Manus stake
Tencent-led group moves to buy back Manus stake. A concise localization of the verified facts and the industry signal behind the story.
Tencent plans to equip WeChat's 1.4 billion users with an AI agent
Tencent is reportedly preparing to launch an AI agent for WeChat that can automate tasks across millions of mini-programs, with a beta test targeted for mid-2026.
Tencent's QClaw opens international beta, claims 99% of code written by AI
Tencent announced the international beta of QClaw, an AI agent tool for consumers, with 20,000 slots across five markets. The company says the international version was built in five days, with 99% of the code generated by QClaw itself.
Tencent Dissolves AI Lab, Merges Staff Into Hunyuan Team for April Launch of Hunyuan 3.0
Tencent has disbanded its AI Lab, moving staff into the Hunyuan large-model team under 28-year-old chief AI scientist Yao Shunyu to finalize Hunyuan 3.0 by late April. The model focuses on reasoning and agent usability, while Tencent also plans a WeChat AI agent entry for mid-2026.
Tencent embeds AI agent QClaw into WeChat ecosystem
Tencent's QClaw is an AI agent embedded within WeChat, accessible via mini-programs and official accounts, leveraging WeChat's billion-user base for scheduling, summarization, and task automation.