Tencent (0700.HK) today launched the largest virtual urban historical landscape created to date called Microcosm, an immersive experience that brings Beijing's Central Axis to life online. The project launch coincides with the addition of the Central Axis to the World Heritage List by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Big Tech companies, from Tencent Holdings to Microsoft and Amazon.com, have rushed to pitch their artificial intelligence (AI) tools to Chinese video gaming firms at ChinaJoy, the country's biggest annual digital entertainment expo in Shanghai. Shenzhen-based Tencent, which runs the world's biggest video gaming business by revenue, is offering a range of AI services to cover the "full life cycle" of game development, Tencent Cloud Internet Industry general manager Chen Liang told the South China
Chinese technology giants Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings have rushed to offer the latest artificial intelligence (AI) model from Facebook owner Meta Platforms into their cloud services, as the debut of Llama 3.1 drew widespread attention this week. Alibaba Cloud, the e-commerce giant's online computing platform, was among the first to include the latest open-source Llama family of large language models (LLMs) - the technology underpinning generative AI products such as ChatGPT - by i