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.

Chinese tech company has released Hunyuan Turbo S model that compares favorably to chatbots from DeepSeek, OpenAI and Meta.

The AI bragging rights war heated up today as Chinese tech giant Tencent (TCEHY) released a new AI model which it said blew “slow thinking”

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

BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese tech giant Tencent on Thursday released a new AI model that it says can answer queries faster than global hit DeepSeek's R1, in the latest sign the startup's domestic and overseas success is putting pressure on its larger competitors in China.

Tencent (OTCPK:TCEHY) launched a new artificial intelligence model today, called the Hunyuan Turbo S, which it claims is faster than "DeepSeek (DEEPSEEK) R1, Hunyuan T1, and other slow thinking models that need to 'think for a while before answering,