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<Research>G Sachs, Encouraged by Progress of TENCENT's AI Strategy, Reiterates Buy
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TENCENT (00700.HK) Chief Strategy Officer James Mitchell participated in the Asia Communacopia+Technology conference hosted by Goldman Sachs, where the group's AI strategy was a key topic of discussion. The broker highlighted that Tencent's Hunyuan 3.0 model, following a comprehensive overhaul of its foundational model strategy, has become one of the most competitive models in its category in China. Tencent has rebuilt its LLM team, redesigned its pre-training and reinforcement learning stack, expanded and cleaned its datasets, and shifted evaluation metrics from public benchmarks to general intelligence. Hy3 is regarded as one of the stronger models in its size class, laying the groundwork for launching larger and more advanced model iterations over the next 6-9 months. Tencent is accelerating AI investment while maintaining resilience in its core profitability. Returns on AI investment are divided into short-cycle deployments, such as advertising technology and Tencent Cloud, which can deliver measurable near-term returns. Long-cycle deployments, such as the Hunyuan model, are expected to create long-term value through differentiated datasets and the WeChat ecosystem. The broker is encouraged by the progress of Tencent's AI strategy, including a YoY spike in AI capex commitments, token usage performance of the Hunyuan 3.0 preview version, and early productivity agent user retention metrics. It believes the path to valuation multiple re-rating will depend on the evolution of the AI narrative over the remainder of 2026, transitioning from a late entrant in foundational models to the recent launch of a new Hunyuan model, increased capex, and the potential rollout of a WeChat AI agent, while reaffirming Tencent Cloud's commitment as one of China's three major hyperscale service providers. The broker maintained its Buy rating on TENCENT (00700.HK) with a 12-month target price of HKD700. Auto-translated by AI This article was automatically translated by AI, the original language version should be considered the authoritative version. AASTOCKS.com Limited does not guarantee its accuracy or completeness and accepts no liability for any damages or losses arising from the use of this translation. More Details
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