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Sources: Tencent recruited prominent AI researcher Yao Shunyu from OpenAI; Chinese media says he got a CN¥100M, or ~$66M, pay package (www.bloomberg.com)
3 days ago China AI Tencent

Tencent releases HunyuanWorld-Voyager, an open-weights AI model that generates 3D-consistent video sequences from a single image, trained on 100K+ video clips (arstechnica.com)
11 days ago AI Tencent

Tencent open sources translation models Hunyuan-MT-7B and Hunyuan-MT-Chimera-7B, which support 33 languages, claiming they beat established models in benchmarks (the-decoder.com)
14 days ago Tencent

How Chinese streaming giants iQiyi and Tencent are gaining on Netflix in Southeast Asia through original productions and free, ad-supported services (asia.nikkei.com)
29 days ago China Asia Netflix Tencent Southeast Asia

Tencent reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to ~$25.7B, vs. ~$24.8B est., gaming revenue up 17% YoY to ~$5.6B, global revenue up 35% YoY to ~$2.6B, a $7.7B net profit (www.reuters.com)
2025-8-13 Tencent

Uzbek fintech and e-commerce company Uzum raised $65.5M led by Tencent and VR Capital at a ~$1.5B valuation, up from $1.16B in March 2024 after a $114M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-7 VR Fintech Tencent

Sony Is Suing Tencent Over Shameless Horizon Knock-off Game (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-8-1 Tencent Sony

Sony sues Tencent for copyright and trademark infringement in California federal court, accusing the Chinese tech giant of ripping off its Horizon game series (www.reuters.com)
2025-7-29 China Tencent Sony California

Z.ai, formerly known as Zhipu and which has raised $1.5B from Tencent and others, releases GLM-4.5, an open source AI model that's cheaper to use than DeepSeek (www.cnbc.com)
2025-7-29 AI Tencent

PayPal announces PayPal World, an upcoming platform designed to simplify cross-border payments via Venmo, India's UPI, Tencent's Tenpay, and Mercado Pago (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-23 India Tencent

Jensen Huang hailed AI models from DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Tencent as “world class” at a Beijing expo and said US licenses for H20 chips “will come very fast” (www.reuters.com)
2025-7-16 Alibaba AI Tencent

Sources: Tencent is in early talks to acquire Nexon, the South Korean gaming giant behind Dungeon & Fighter Mobile; Tencent pursued a Nexon acquisition in 2019 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-6-13 Korea Mobile Tencent

Tencent Music agrees to buy podcasting startup Ximalaya for $1.3B in cash, plus some stock, in a bid to become China's Spotify; Ximalaya had 303M MAUs in 2023 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-6-10 China Startup Tencent Spotify

Alibaba, Tencent, and other Chinese AI companies temporarily disabled chatbot functions like image recognition during China's annual college entrance exams (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-6-9 China Alibaba AI chatbot Tencent

Sources say Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, and other Chinese companies are testing domestic alternatives as they deal with a dwindling stockpile of Nvidia processors (t.co)
2025-5-30 China Alibaba Tencent Nvidia

Tencent reports Q1 revenue up 13% YoY to ~$25B, above ~$24.3B est., net profit up 14% YoY to ~$6.6B, below ~$7.3B est., driven by gaming business growth (www.cnbc.com)
2025-5-14 Tencent

Sources: Nvidia told ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent, and others that it is tweaking its AI chips so they can be sold in China without breaching US export rules (www.theinformation.com)
2025-5-2 China Alibaba AI Tencent Nvidia

Sources: Tencent Music is in advanced talks to buy Chinese podcasting startup Ximalaya in a $2.4B deal (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-26 China Startup Tencent

Source: ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent asked Nvidia to ship ~1M H20s, ideally by the end of May, but the actual number delivered fell short due to new US curbs (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-4-23 Alibaba Tencent Nvidia

Sources: ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent, and other Chinese companies placed $16B+ in orders for Nvidia's H20 chips in Q1 2025, ahead of a potential US sales ban (www.theinformation.com)
2025-4-3 China Alibaba Tencent Ban Nvidia

Ubisoft Spins Out Subsidiary With a Billion-Dollar Investment From Tencent (slashdot.org)
2025-3-28 Tencent

Ubisoft carves out a unit, which includes Assassin's Creed, into a ~€4B subsidiary; Tencent will invest €1.16B to acquire a 25% stake in the new entity (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-3-28 Tencent

Since DeepSeek-R1's debut, Chinese companies like Baidu, DeepSeek, Tencent, Ant, and Alibaba have been flooding the market with low cost AI services and models (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-3-26 China Alibaba AI Tencent

Tencent unveils Hunyuan T1, which leverages large-scale reinforcement learning to rival DeepSeek's R1 in both performance and pricing (www.scmp.com)
2025-3-23 Tencent

Tencent says it has slowed the pace of its GPU rollout since implementing DeepSeek, and that most of its GPU capex goes toward its ad and gaming businesses (www.theregister.com)
2025-3-21 Tencent

Tencent reports Q4 revenue up 11% YoY to ~$23.9B, vs. ~$23.4B est., profit up 90% YoY to ~$7B, vs. ~$6.3B est., and domestic game revenue up 23% YoY to ~$4.6B (www.cnbc.com)
2025-3-19 Tencent 4Q

Tencent releases five AI tools to turn text or images into 3D visuals and graphics, based on Hunyuan3D-2.0, and plans to integrate DeepSeek's R1 into WeChat (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-3-18 AI WeChat Tencent

Sources: Ubisoft explores selling a stake in a new entity holding IP like Assassin's Creed to investors including Tencent, at a higher valuation than Ubisoft (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-3-15 Tencent

Tencent releases new AI model, says replies faster than DeepSeek-R1 (indianexpress.com)
2025-2-28 AI Tencent

Tencent releases Hunyuan Turbo S, an AI model designed to respond instantly, saying it is competitive against DeepSeek's V3 model in commonly used AI tests (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-27 AI Tencent

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