HONG KONG — China’s chatbot market, led by TikTok owner ByteDance and startup Moonshot, is in for a shakeup after Tencent announced it was joining the growing list of Big Tech players embracing DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence model.
Tencent has begun beta testing access to DeepSeek on Weixin, the domestic version of its WeChat app, according to the company, coming amid similar moves by Baidu, Huawei, NetEase, BYD and ByteDance’s Lark. Tencent has been trying to differentiate the two versions of its popular app — domestic and global — amid growing overseas scrutiny.
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