See how Tencent’s newest AI platform called Hunyuan Turbo S compared to top competitors, including DeepSeek-R1-Zero.

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.

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,

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek recently declared that its AI models could be very profitable — with some asterisks. In a post on X, DeepSeek boasted that its

Chinese artificial intelligence phenomenon DeepSeek revealed some financial numbers on Saturday, saying its “theoretical” profit margin could be more than five times costs, peeling back a layer of the secrecy that shrouds business models in the AI industry.