Viral ‘Pokémon with guns’ game Palworld sparks cloud service race between Alibaba, Tencent in China

Viral ‘Pokémon with guns’ game Palworld sparks cloud service race between Alibaba, Tencent in China

A popular video game developed by a Japanese studio has set off an unexpected cloud-computing race between Tencent Holdings and Alibaba Group Holding, as the two Chinese tech giants rush to draw players to their respective servers. Palworld, an open-world survival game developed by Pocketpair that lets players catch and raise creatures known as Pals …

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Tencent Begins Testing of Self-Developed AI Model; Integrates With Internal Services, Products

Tencent Begins Testing of Self-Developed AI Model; Integrates With Internal Services, Products

Tencent Holdings, one of China’s leading technology companies, announced on Thursday that it has commenced internal testing of its in-house developed artificial intelligence (AI) model. This AI model, called “Hunyuan,” is currently being integrated into various internal services and products offered by Tencent. Tencent stated in a press release sent to Reuters that the Hunyuan …

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