Tencent fires up AI race with ‘Hunyuan Turbo S’, says outdoes DeepSeek

Tencent Holdings Ltd. became the latest tech company to unveil or enhance an AI model intended to eclipse DeepSeek, joining a spate of rollouts since the startup’s emergence energized the US-China technology race.

The Hunyuan Turbo S artificial intelligence model is designed to respond as instantly as possible, distinguishing itself from the deep reasoning approach of DeepSeek’s eponymous chatbot. The deployment cost has also fallen sharply, Tencent said on its official WeChat channel.