Tencent unveils new AI innovations and global solutions
SHENZHEN, CHINA – The Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit unveiled Tencent’s latest Cloud and Artificial Intelligence innovations.
Tencent is one of the largest tech companies and video game vendors worldwide, well-known for the WeChat app and the game “Call of Duty: Mobile.”
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The company introduced several products to support its partners’ AI and digitalization goals. These include “AI Infra” (腾讯云智算), which optimizes infrastructure to enhance AI model development and training.
The company also unveiled “Tencent Hunyuan Turbo,” (“腾讯混元Turbo”) a model service based on the Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture.
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Nowadays, Tencent Cloud’s AI Coding Assistant runs on the Hunyuan foundational model.
Over half of the company’s programmers use it to enhance productivity by 40%.
Moreover, the Tencent Meeting program gained new features like intelligent recording, multilingual translation, and an AI assistant.
Tencent Cloud is also scaling up investments and resources to collaborate with clients in its mission to “Innovate, Connect and Globalize.”
Tencent Cloud International unveiled its Palm Verification technology for the overseas market.
Consequently, it will drive broader adoption of secure, AI-enabled identity authentication.
Poshu Yeung, Senior Vice President of Tencent Cloud International, noted that many companies worldwide have piloted this technology.
These include Indonesia’s largest mobile internet provider, Telkomsel.
Moreover, it unveiled other AI products like the Knowledge Engine Platform, Digital Human, e-KYC and others.
The company has achieved double-digit growth in the international market due to the demand for its unique ecosystem capabilities.
It has also established a global network of nine technical support centers across nine countries to serve its global partners better.
These include Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Germany, the US and the Philippines.
