Chinese tech giant Tencent unveiled the official version of its own reasoning artificial intelligence model, T1, on Thursday, increasing competition in China’s already crowded AI industry.
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The updated T1 offers reduced response times and enhanced capabilities for working with text documents, the company said on its WeChat platform. The model “keeps the logic of content clear and the text coherent and clean,” while the percentage of hallucinations, or deliberately giving false answers, is “extremely low.”
Chinese and other global players have had to step up their AI modeling efforts with the emergence of startup DeepSeek, which has learned to achieve cutting-edge results at minimal cost. The T1 was previously available in preview form on Tencent platforms, including the Yuanbao virtual assistant app. The official version of the T1 will run on Tencent’s Turbo S model, which the developer says is faster than the DeepSeek R1.
The T1 managed to outperform DeepSeek R1 on some metrics related to knowledge and reasoning, according to a chart accompanying the publication. Tencent warned this week that it would ramp up capital spending in 2025, although its AI spending has also increased sharply in 2024.
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