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5 developments involving Tencent in 2 countries and bodies. The most recent is DeepSeek reported to have raised about 100 billion yuan from CATL, Tencent and others, 22 Oct 2026.

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  1. DealFrontierChina
    DeepSeek reported to have raised about 100 billion yuan from CATL, Tencent and others

    A round of that size would put DeepSeek’s funding in the range of the leading US labs, with Chinese industrial and internet companies as its backers.

    Source, source copy (PDF, saved 22 Oct 2026)

  2. ReportFrontierChina
    Only 3.6% of 857 Chinese model releases ever got a published safety result

    Chinese labs publish open weights anyone can run, and this counts how rarely any safety result is published alongside them.

    Source, source copy (PDF, saved 18 Oct 2026)

  3. Model releaseFrontierChina
    Tencent releases Hy4 preview, a 770-billion-parameter open model

    Tencent’s second open flagship in four months kept China’s largest internet groups competing in open models.

    Source, source copy (PDF, saved 18 Oct 2026)

  4. Model releaseFrontierChina
    Tencent open-sources Hy3 preview, a 295 billion parameter Hunyuan model

    Tencent joined Alibaba, Zhipu and Moonshot in releasing large open-weights models from China this year.

    Source, source copy (PDF, saved 18 Oct 2026)

  5. DealComputeChina US
    NVIDIA restarts H200 production after Chinese orders and first US licence

    Chinese buyers of H200s need Beijing’s approval and a US licence carrying inspection and a 25% duty, and either can be withdrawn.

    Also on How US AI-chip export rules changed

    Source, source copy (PDF, saved 18 Oct 2026)