By CUI Peng
While tech companies rush to take large language models (LLMs) to market in any way they can, Tencent's deliberate approach stands out as perhaps a cut above the rest.
It wasn't until September this year that released Hunyuan on the world, CEO of the Cloud and Smart Industries Group (CSIG), Dowson TONG, declared Tencent's focus to be on how to help enterprises solve problems.
Despite the late entry, Tong is not concerned about missed opportunities. Though many businesses are interested in AI, very few are actually using it. The entire AI industry is still in its early stages, with no clear market divisions.
Tencent CSIG's focus is on practical problems, cost reduction and efficiency. Faced with rapid changes, Tencent does not follow the crowd but instead identifies the best metrics and makes targeted investments.
In terms of resource allocation, 70 percent of resources are invested in generating income and profits; 20 percent in developing technologies that can be commercialized in two to three years; and 10 percent in early-stage research.
