Tencent Holdings Ltd. released new AI services that turn text or images into 3D visuals and graphics, the latest in a series of products to emerge from big tech firms since DeepSeek galvanized Chinese and US artificial intelligence development. Tencent’s five new 3D-content generators are built atop its Hunyuan3D-2.0 model, all of which it intends to open-source to users, the company said in a statement. They will help power an upgraded version of Tencent’s proprietary 3D engine for games and other content. From OpenAI to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., major industry players on both sides of the Pacific have rolled out AI model advancements at an astonishing pace. The series of introductions underscore a dramatically quickened pace of development since DeepSeek stunned Silicon Valley with a model that matched the best from OpenAI and Meta Platforms Inc. — but at purportedly a sliver the cost. That was true particularly in China, where the two-year-old startup has galvanized interest across a tech industry that for years struggled to match the US. Baidu Inc. just upgraded its flagship foundation model to Ernie 4.5. and introduced the X1, designed to compete with DeepSeek’s R1.

Full story : Tencent releases five AI tools that turn text or images into 3D visuals and graphics, based on Hunyuan3D-2.0, and plans to integrate DeepSeek’s R1 into WeChat.