Table of Content

1.Tencent’s Basic Operating Model

2.Organizational Development and AI Team

2.1 Organizational Resource Integration

2.2 AI Teams

2.2.1 Tencent AI Lab

2.2.2 Youtu Lab

2.3 Public Security

2.4 Facial Recognition

2.5 Online Content Review

2.6 Smart Retail

2.6.1 WeChat AI

3.Tencent’s AI Products and Technologies

3.1 The Six Resources of Tencent’s AI Ecosystem

3.2 AI Products

3.2.1 Smart Hardware

3.2.2 Smart Hiring

4.Tencent’s AI Accelerator and Investment Strategy

4.1 AI Accelerator

4.2 Tencent’s AI Investment Strategy


5. MIC Perspective

Appendix

Glossary of Terms

List of Companies

List of Tables

Table 1 Basic Information on Tencent

Table 2 Organizational Structure of Tencent

Table 3 Applications of Tencent AI Lab

Table 4 Research Plans of Tencent AI Lab

Table 5 Shared Technologies on the Tencent Open AI Platform

Table 6 Smart Hardware Application Scenarios

Table 7 Investment Targets of Tencent’s AI Accelerator

Table 8 Tencent’s AI Investment Strategy

List of Figures

Figure 1 The Grandeye Security Platform

Figure 2 Facial Recognition Verification Process

Figure 3 Youtu’s AI Applications in Smart Retail

Figure 4 The Six Resources of Tencent’s AI Ecosystem

Figure 5 Smart Hardware Program15

Figure 6 Features of Tencent’s Smart Recruitment Technology



List of Tables


Company profile of Tencent, touching on its organizational development and deployment strategies in AI such as the establishment of AI teams (e.g. Tencent AI Lab and Youtu Lab), public security solutions, facial recognition, online content review, and smart retail (e.g. WeChat AI).

Product and technology development strategies of Tencent and includes its six resources for AI ecosystem and Open AI Platform, and smart hardware program and smart hiring program.

An overview of AI accelerators of Tencent and their investment strategies, including Cowarobot, Readstar.ai, Huiyihuiying, Atman, Tensorise, Zhuiyi, GMEMS, Leju Robotics, GJS Robot, Cloudbrain, Kiwi, Equota, Lavector, Versa.

An overview of Tencent’s AI investment in robotics, smart transport, smart medicine, smart life, data services, incubators, audio recognition, and information security.