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21 Interestana reports mention Tencent, newest first. Each is summarised from the original reporting and links back to its publisher.
DeepSeek is backing a new startup founded by an ex-Tencent AI scientist that is building AI for robots. The investment aims to deploy capital from DeepSeek's own financing to support the rapidly growing field.
Perplexity AI released pplx-embed-v2-late, a new suite of ColBERT-style multimodal embedding models, on an unspecified date, offering two distinct sizes: a 0.6 billion parameter model optimized for speed and cost-efficiency, and a 9 billion parameter model designed for maximum quality.
Artificial intelligence company DeepSeek is nearing the completion of a significant funding round, aiming to raise at least 80 billion yuan, which equates to approximately $12 billion USD. This capital infusion surpasses the company's initial fundraising target and positions it…
Independent researchers have identified a sophisticated Chinese AI agent fleet that appears to be operating on Tencent's infrastructure and targeting Alibaba's map service, Amap. This discovery, detailed in a recent analysis, highlights the growing complexity and potential strategic use…
Tencent, the Chinese technology conglomerate known for its WeChat messaging app, has entered into a substantial agreement to lease 100,000 artificial intelligence chips from Oracle. This strategic move, reported on June 12, 2024, is designed to significantly accelerate Tencent's internal…
China-aligned threat actors are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability, identified as CVE-2026-51990, within Tencent's Sogou Input Method for Windows. This exploit allows the adversaries to deploy the GrayRabbit backdoor, a piece of malware associated with espionage activities.
A China-linked cyber-espionage group, identified as UNC3569, has successfully exploited a critical vulnerability within the Sogou Input Method, a widely adopted software for typing Chinese characters on Windows operating systems.
Security researchers at the firm Calif have developed a sophisticated zero-click worm capable of compromising WeChat accounts on both iOS and Android devices. This worm exploits an incoming call vulnerability, meaning that a user does not need to answer…
NVIDIA has reportedly delivered 10,000 H200 AI chips to both ByteDance and Tencent, two of China's largest technology companies. This significant shipment provides these Chinese AI firms with access to advanced processing hardware, crucial for developing and deploying artificial intelligence…
China has eased restrictions on the import of Nvidia's H200 artificial intelligence (AI) chips, permitting small shipments to key domestic technology companies. This move is intended to help Chinese firms accelerate their AI development and narrow the gap with leading…
OpenAI and Anthropic, two leading artificial intelligence companies, have initiated a price war by significantly reducing the costs of their foundational AI models. This strategic move comes as Chinese AI developers increasingly challenge the dominance of Western tech giants…
ByteDance, the global technology powerhouse renowned for its immensely popular short-form video application TikTok, has ceased operations of its AI companion services within China. This abrupt discontinuation has left numerous users in a state of profound grief, having formed significant…
A comprehensive study of nearly 14 million Chinese patents indicates that Chinese universities are the primary drivers of innovation in critical technology sectors, a finding that challenges the prevailing narrative that a few large Chinese corporations or returning émigré talent…
A critical use-after-free vulnerability within the Linux kernel's Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) networking code, present since 2008, has been identified and exploited to grant local users full root privileges on a host system.
Chinese technology conglomerate Alibaba has announced the release of its largest and most advanced artificial intelligence model to date, named Qwen3.8-Max. The company asserts that this new model demonstrates performance capabilities that rival those of leading AI systems developed…
Tencent has open-sourced AngelSpec, a torch-native training framework designed to enhance speculative decoding for large language models. This framework specifically addresses the challenges of workload heterogeneity by offering specialized training for both autoregressive multi-token prediction (MTP) and block-parallel speculative decoding…
Free artificial intelligence chatbots developed by major Chinese technology firms are significantly disrupting the nation's expensive college counseling sector. Companies including Alibaba, ByteDance, Tencent, and Baidu have launched these AI tools, which are now assisting millions of students preparing…
The 2026 Fortune Global 500 ranking, which measures the world's largest companies by revenue, highlights the significant impact of the artificial intelligence boom on the technology and semiconductor supply chains.
Several United States-based artificial intelligence companies have been supplying AI models and services to Singapore-based subsidiaries of prominent Chinese technology conglomerates. These transactions involve entities linked to Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent, according to an investigation by Reuters.
Tencent's Hy team released Hy3, a 295 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model, on an unspecified date. This model activates only 21 billion parameters per token and is released under the Apache License 2.0, making it available for broader use.