SHENZHEN-BASED internet giant Tencent Holdings will unveil an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot today, according to a social media post it published yesterday.

The chatbot, powered by Tencent’s own AI model “Hunyuan,” aims to compete with other big tech companies in China that have already released their own AI chatbots.

It comes after China started to approve AI chatbots for public release last month. Other big tech companies in China, including Baidu Inc. and SenseTime Group, released their AI chatbots last week.

Tencent’s entry into the market is expected to intensify competition in the AI chatbot space.

Tencent has been developing its own AI model named “Hunyuan” for months and the firm said last month that it was expanding the test of the model internally. (SD-Agencies)