Tencent holding said he tests the integration of In depthWeixin’s service, because the operator of the most popular super application in China turns to artificial intelligence (AI) to feed its suite of services, from social networks to electronic payments and carpooling.
In the current beta test, users can click on an “IA search” option in the Weixin search bar to access Deepseek, in addition to the fundamental model of Hunyuan de Tencent, said a spokesperson for the spokesperson on Sunday ‘business. The functionality is currently not available in WeChatAs the version abroad of the application is called.
Users can access “the full version of the Deepseek-R1 model [enjoy] A more diverse research experience, ”said the representative of Tencent.
Deepseek-R1 is an open source model published by the Start-up based in Hangzhou on January 20, which made waves in China and abroad because it showed capacity comparable to those of the more advanced models of Openai , Anthropic and Google, but also with significantly lower training costs.
The integration of Deepseek in Weixin would put AI into the hands of 1.3 billion active users who engage with the super application each month, using it to discuss, share documents, watch videos, put back of funds and shopping.
