Tencent’s ai bot passes Deepsek as China’s favorite on iphones

Tencent holdings’s yuanbao ai chatbot passed Deepsek to become the most downloaded iPhone app in china this week, highlighting the intensifying domestic competition. Tencent’s app integrates its in-Hunyuan Artificial Intelligence Tech ALONGSIDE DEEPSEEK’s R1 Reasoning Model and has taken over at a time of acute interest and compelity.

Three of the top five most downloaded free apps are ai bots, with Bytedance‘s doubao joining Tencent and Deepseek,

Now a month into its sensational risk, Deepsek’s chatbot has galvanized China’s tech and internet ecosystem, Accelerating investment and new product releases. Alibaba Group Holding Has Started Benchmarking Itself Against Deepsek and Announced A $ 53 Billion (roughly Rs. 4,63,090 Crore) Investment in Ai.

TENCENT, For Its Part, Has Integrated Deepsek R1 Into a Slew of Its Products, Including Wechat’s Search feature as well as powering a virtual company in its evergreen game peacekeeper elite. Last week, tensent also launched a Hunyuan Turbo Edition that it says is faster than Deepsek in delivering answers.

Shenzhen-based tenant is the world’s biggest games distributor and its weChat platform is used by more than 1.4 billion people. That may have helped it secure the top spot, as the company looks to ramp up its presence in the race for ai users.

Questions Persist About How Companies will Eventually Monetize Such Services, Which are presently free to use and increase release in open source for other development to take advantage of, Deepsek does with its ai models. For now, the focus remains on getting the most users on board and tensent have stole a March on rivals like alibaba and BaiduWhich have made bigger bets on ai than the shenzhen company.

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