Tencent
ACTIVEChinese technology conglomerate from Shenzhen, maker of WeChat and QQ, one of the world’s largest video game companies and a provider of cloud services and the Hunyuan AI models.
Tencent
Founded 1998 · Shenzhen, ChinaTencent Holdings Ltd. is a Chinese technology conglomerate headquartered in Shenzhen, founded in 1998 by Ma Huateng (Pony Ma) and four co-founders. The company operates one of the world’s largest messaging and social platforms – WeChat/Weixin and QQ – and is the largest video game publisher globally. Its portfolio spans cloud services (Tencent Cloud), payments (WeChat Pay), music and video, advertising and artificial intelligence. In AI, Tencent develops the Hunyuan model family (language, image, video) and runs Tencent AI Lab and the Robotics X lab. Tencent is publicly listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK: 700), with Prosus/Naspers as its largest shareholder.
Founders
Principal co-founder of Tencent and its long-serving chairman and chief executive officer.
Co-founder responsible for technology; served as chief technology officer.
One of the five co-founders of the company.
Co-founder, later active in philanthropy.
One of the five co-founders of Tencent.
Domain of activity
4 areas · 6 technologies · 4 industries- Language models
- Multimodal models
- Cloud AI
- AI infrastructure
- LLM
- Foundation Models
- Generative AI
- Multimodal AI
- Computer vision
- NLP
- Software & Technology
- Media & entertainment
- Finance & banking
- Telecommunications
Global presence
HQ Shenzhen · 4 offices · 3 regionsScale & funding
founded 1998 · IPOOrganizational relations
2 strategic relations · 4 brandsStrategic relations
2- Funded byProsus/Naspers is Tencent’s largest shareholder (about 24–26%).
- AcquisitionTencent fully owns Riot Games (creator of League of Legends).
Profile & metadata
4 classification · 8 external linksClassification
- Statusactive
- Development stagemature
- Listed onYes
- Organization typeBig Tech
