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.

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.

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,