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Chinese buyers of H200s need Beijing’s approval and a US licence carrying inspection and a 25% duty, and either can be withdrawn.