Business & Enterprise2 min read
DeepSeek reportedly raises $15bn from Tencent and CATL ahead of IPO
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Updates on Tencent
Every AI story we track on Tencent: 52 stories so far, each summarized in our own words and linked to the publisher that reported it.
Pulled from 125 sources
This week
Chips & Compute4 min read
ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent order $35bn of Nvidia chips, Reuters reports
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This month
Business & Enterprise5 min read
Asia’s Startup Funding At Near Record High In Q3, Driven By AI
Crunchbase
Cybersecurity3 min read
Researchers trace AI agents that probed Alibaba’s Amap to Tencent
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Consumer Tech3 min read
Home consoles face extinction as cloud and AI boom, BI research says
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Business & Enterprise3 min read
DeepSeek considers doubling latest funding round to up to $15 billion, sources say
CNBC
Business & Enterprise2 min read
DeepSeek reportedly nears $12bn funding round backed by Tencent and CATL
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Chips & Compute2 min read
Tencent leases 100,000 AI chips from Oracle in a $7bn deal, FT reports
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Industry & Manufacturing3 min read
ByteDance rents a fifth of China’s data centre capacity, SemiAnalysis says
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Healthcare3 min read
UpTCR: a unified progressive knowledge transfer foundation model for robust T-cell receptor-antigen binding recognition
Nature
Business & Enterprise2 min read
Manus seeks $4B valuation in new $500M fundraise as it resumes independent ops
TechCrunch
Cybersecurity6 min read
Researchers used AI to build a WeChat worm that spreads through phone calls
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Consumer Tech5 min read
China wants a light on the glasses when they record. Its platforms are shipping glasses that never stop listening.
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Robotics4 min read
XPENG’s robotics arm has raised more than $900M ahead of its humanoid production run
Covered by 2 sources
Chips & Compute2 min read
China reportedly allows ByteDance and Tencent to import 10,000 H200 chips
Engadget
Chips & Compute4 min read
Nvidia’s H200 finally reaches Chinese buyers, though maybe not mainland China
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Agents5 min read
The man who built Qwen has a new lab, and the Shanghai government is an investor
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Social Media4 min read
China bans AI companions, forcing millions to break up with virtual partners
Hacker News
Machine Learning5 min read
Latest open artifacts (#23): Laguna S2.1, Inkling, & Kimi K3 show the utility of open models on the Pareto frontier
Interconnects
Dev7 min read
Tencent Open-Sources AngelSpec: A Unified Training Framework for MTP and Block-Parallel Speculative Decoding on Hy3 Models
MarkTechPost
Business & Enterprise3 min read
Moonshot is chasing a $50bn valuation, and it wants two funding rounds to get there
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Cybersecurity4 min read
The Singapore side door: OpenAI and Google are selling frontier AI to blacklisted Chinese giants
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Chips & Compute3 min read
Camera-free smart-glasses maker Even Realities hits $1bn on a $150M raise
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Agents3 min read
ByteDance and Alibaba kill custom AI companions as China’s new rules bite
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Video Generation3 min read
Kling AI raises two billion dollars as Kuaishou spins off its fastest-growing business
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Tencent-backed Enflame wins approval for an $888m IPO, the last of China’s ‘four AI chip dragons’
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Tencent is building an enterprise empire on top of an Austrian developer’s open-source lobster
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That's everything we have on Tencent right now