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.

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.

BGMI maker Tencent's AI model will compete with China's DeepSeek. DeepSeek created a stir in the global industry by entering the market. The latest AI model, Hunyuan Turbo S, is designed to give instant answers.

The company explained the model is capable of near “instant replies” within a second by doubling the output speed and cutting the delay of the first word out by almost 44%. Different from DeepSeek-R1 and other “reasoning models,