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  Assassin's Creed Boss Marc-Alexis Coté Exits Ubisoft After Launch of New Tencent-Backed Subsidiary

  Assassin's Creed executive producer and VP, Marc-Alexis Coté, has reportedly left Ubisoft after the launch of the Tencent-backed Vantage Studios. The executive reportedly had different expectations and priorities related to Vantage and declined a leadership role at the subsidiary. Vantage, which was launched earlier this month, handles Assassin's ...

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  Ubisoft Launches Tencent-Backed Subsidiary, Vantage Studios, to Run Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six

  Ubisoft has launched its Tencent-backed subsidiary, Vantage Studios, which will handle the company's three biggest franchises. Vantage will be responsible for development and expansion of Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Rainbow Six.

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  Tencent Says Sony 'Monopolising' Genre Conventions, Seeks Dismissal of Light of Motiram Lawsuit

  Tencent has finally responded to Sony's copyright infringement lawsuit against its upcoming survival game, Light of Motiram. The Chinese conglomerate said Sony was attempting to "monopolise" popular genre conventions seen in other games with its lawsuit and sought the dismissal of the case on legal grounds.

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  Sony Sues Tencent for Copyright Infringement, Says Its Game Is 'Slavish Clone' of Horizon Franchise

  Sony has sued Tencent over alleged copyright infringement, accusing the company's game of copying elements of its Horizon franchise. Tencent's Light of Motiram was announced last year and looked eerily similar to Horizon Zero Dawn.

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  Tencent’s Hunyuan Team Releases Open-Source Hunyuan3D World Model 1.0, Can Generate Explorable 3D Worlds

  Tencent’s Hunyuan team released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model on Sunday, which can generate three-dimensional (3D) worlds. Dubbed Hunyuan 3D World Model 1.0, it is an open-source model that supports both text and images as input. The model can generate 360-degree world views which are both explorable and interactive.

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  AI Upstart Manus Starts Text-to-Video Service to Take On OpenAI

  Manus unveiled a text-to-video generation feature. The upstart, whose AI service is known for its ability to carry out multistep tasks the way humans do, said users can now similarly generate videos with text instructions.

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  Tencent Launches HunyuanPortrait, an Open-Source AI Model for Animating Portraits

  Tencent released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model on Tuesday that can animate still portrait images. Dubbed HunyuanPortrait, the large language model (LLM) is based on the diffusion architecture, and can generate videos with realistic animation based on a reference image and a guiding video. The researchers behind the project highlighted th...

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  Ubisoft Forms New Subsidiary for Assassin's Creed, Far Cry and Rainbow Six Franchises Backed by Tencent

  Ubisoft is forming a new dedicated subsidiary for its core IPs of Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six in an effort to transform its operations, the company announced Thursday. The new entity will be backed by a €1.16 billion investment from Chinese conglomerate Tencent, which will hold a minority stake in the subsidiary.

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  Tencent T1 Reasoning Model Launched Amid Growing AI Competition in China

  Tencent launched its T1 reasoning model, intensifying competition in China's AI sector. Announced via WeChat, the upgraded model features faster responses and improved capabilities for processing lengthy text documents. The launch coincides with heightened rivalry following DeepSeek’s release of models offering comparable or superior performance ...

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  Tencent Raises Stake in FromSoftware Parent Kadokawa to 7.97 Percent: Report

  Tencent Holdings has reportedly increased its stake in FromSoftware parent company Kadokawa. The Chinese firm is said to have acquired additional 1.11 percent shares of Kadokawa on Monday, raising its ownership in the company from 6.86 percent to 7.97 percent.

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  Tencent’s AI Bot Passes DeepSeek as China’s Favorite on iPhones

  Tencent Holdings’s Yuanbao became the most downloaded iPhone app in China this week. It overtook DeepSeek to claim the position. With this, Tencent has stolen a march on rivals like Alibaba and Baidu, which have made bigger bets on AI than the Shenzhen company.

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  Tencent Releases New AI Model, Says Replies Faster Than DeepSeek-R1

  Tencent has released a new AI model that it says can answer queries faster than DeepSeek's R1. The Hunyuan Turbo S is able to reply to queries within a second, distinguishing itself "from DeepSeek R1, the company said in a statement.

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  Apple Said to Be in Talks with Tencent, ByteDance to Roll Out iPhone AI Features in China

  A successful partner for Apple's AI services in China could be a major winner in the country's increasingly crowded AI field where dozens of large language models have been launched by large tech firms as well as startups.

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  Tencent Announces Light of Motiram, an Open-World Title That Looks Eerily Similar to Sony's Horizon Series

  A Tencent has announced a new open-world action-adventure title that seemingly blends Guerrilla Games’ Horizon series on PlayStation with Pocketpair’s controversial crafting game Palworld. Light of Motiram, developed by Tencent subsidiary Polaris Quest, looks eerily similar to Horizon games, down to tameable mechanical animals — called “Mec...

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  Final Fantasy XIV Announced for Mobile, With PUBG Mobile Developer at Helm

  Final Fantasy XIV, the long-running popular MMOROG from Square Enix, is coming to mobile platforms, the publisher announced Wednesday. The mobile version of the game is being developed by Tencent-owned Lightspeed Studios, that previously worked on PUBG Mobile.