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.
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China's Big Tech players have rushed to embrace startup DeepSeek's AI technology. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Getty Images and AP)
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.