PYMNTS.com February 27, 2025
Chinese tech giant Tencent said its new artificial intelligence model is faster than that of DeepSeek.
The company’s Hunyuan Turbo S AI model was built to respond as instantly as possible, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Feb. 27), thus distinguishing itself from the deep reasoning offered by DeepSeek, a China-based AI startup.
Last month, DeepSeek released an AI chatbot it said could perform as well as OpenAI’s ChatGPT while costing a fraction of the price to develop. The launch rocked tech markets, raising questions about whether massive investments in AI companies are necessary.
Gokul Naidu, a consultant for SAP, told PYMNTS in the wake of the launch that DeepSeek isn’t just a new AI model but “a wake-up call for the entire...
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