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Tencent boss Pony Ma left out of China’s signature political gathering

March 3, 2023

[ad_1] Tencent founder Pony Ma has been left off a list of delegates to China’s annual parliamentary session this week…

Sources: Tencent established a team to work on "HunyuanAide", a ChatGPT-style chatbot using Tencent's Hunyuan training model, following Alibaba and Baidu (Josh Ye/Reuters)

February 27, 2023

[ad_1] Josh Ye / Reuters: Sources: Tencent established a team to work on “HunyuanAide”, a ChatGPT-style chatbot using Tencent’s Hunyuan…

Tencent confirms it joined the open-source chip group RISC-V International as a premier member; 13 out of 25 members are from China, including ZTE and Huawei (Che Pan/South China Morning Post)

December 24, 2022

[ad_1] Che Pan / South China Morning Post: Tencent confirms it joined the open-source chip group RISC-V International as a…

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No, the AI art app Lensa is not owned by the Chinese company Tencent

December 12, 2022

[ad_1] An AI art app faced increased scrutiny after it became popular online. The company behind Lensa is American –…

Sources: on Tuesday, China's internet regulator told Tencent, ByteDance, and others to grow censorship teams, focus on protest content, and censor info on VPNs (Liza Lin/Wall Street Journal)

December 1, 2022

[ad_1] Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal: Sources: on Tuesday, China’s internet regulator told Tencent, ByteDance, and others to grow…

A look at China's growing interest in the open-source Risc-V chip architecture after US sanctions, including enlisting Alibaba and Tencent to help design chips (Financial Times)

November 30, 2022

[ad_1] Financial Times: A look at China’s growing interest in the open-source Risc-V chip architecture after US sanctions, including enlisting…

Tencent reports Q3 revenue down 2% YoY to ~$19.8B, below ~$20B estimates, and plans to distribute most of its ~$20B Meituan stake to shareholders as a dividend (Josh Ye/Reuters)

November 16, 2022

[ad_1] Josh Ye / Reuters: Tencent reports Q3 revenue down 2% YoY to ~$19.8B, below ~$20B estimates, and plans to…

Sources: China's central bank struggles to get Tencent, Meituan, and others to share user data with state credit scoring companies before the December deadline (Sun Yu/Financial Times)

November 4, 2022

[ad_1] Sun Yu / Financial Times: Sources: China’s central bank struggles to get Tencent, Meituan, and others to share user…

Tencent is no longer China's most valuable company after its shares dropped 64% since Jan. 2021, wiping $623B in market value, more than any other firm globally (Jeanny Yu/Bloomberg)

October 2, 2022

[ad_1] Jeanny Yu / Bloomberg: Tencent is no longer China’s most valuable company after its shares dropped 64% since Jan.…

Sources: Tencent is resetting its M&A strategy, seeking to own majority or even controlling stakes in overseas targets, mainly in gaming companies in Europe (Reuters)

October 1, 2022

[ad_1] Reuters: Sources: Tencent is resetting its M&A strategy, seeking to own majority or even controlling stakes in overseas targets,…