Tencent Holdings Ltd. became the latest tech company to unveil or enhance an AI model intended to eclipse DeepSeek, joining a spate of rollouts since the startup’s emergence energized the US-China technology race.

Tencent claims its Hunyuan Turbo S model is able to reply to queries within a second, distinguishing itself "from DeepSeek R1, Hunyuan T1, and other slow thinking models".

Tencent's new model doubles response speed while matching top performers like GPT-4o in reasoning tasks, intensifying the AI race between China and the U.S.

Chinese tech giant Tencent launched its latest AI model, Hunyuan Turbo S claiming it can answer questions faster than the global hit DeepSeek R1.

Tencent has begun trialing its own AI reasoning model, "Hunyuan Thinker," alongside DeepSeek’s R1 chatbot in its Yuanbao chatbot, aiming for more huma

Chinese multinational firm Tencent has launched a new AI model to compete with DeepSeek's R1 AI model. DeepSeek launching its AI model had created waves in the global tech industry and had led to a massive rout in tech stocks globally.