Chinese AI companies make money
On July 26, 2025, Tencent shows various AI applications based on the Hunyuan model at the World AI Conference in Shanghai.
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Chinese companies, from beginner to technology giants, find a job request for artificial intelligence services even if AI models continue to burn cash in other places.
AI can now solve more than 80% of online customer questions in Toyota’s joint venture with Chinese state manufacturer FAW, twice as much as it can handle half a year ago, Wu Yongjian, Vice President of the Vice President Coil Cloud told me on Friday. Tencent provides some AI tools to automobile manufacturers.
And now, it takes only two weeks to run the Tencent’s AI Customer Service platform, and when we sit in the company’s bright new office in a future Shanghai coastal area, Wu is up to three months.
During the weekend, as the “World AI Conference” starts in the city, it announced that it was upgraded by other companies as well as to the Hunyuan AI model.
Although not every company has seen a similar demand for its products and services, focusing on business opportunities reflects a change in capturing the AI opportunity in China. And this is reflected in job applications.
Zhou Yuxiang, CEO of the contact -supported starter Black Technologies, said that on Saturday, AI model engineers who want to develop AI for certain industrial applications in the last few months. “Before it was difficult to buy artificial intelligence engineers.” He said.
Black Lake first sells AI vehicles to small factories in China to help them accelerate production and use capacity better.
Zhou, many of the business owners are experiencing “Fomo” because they missed the e-commerce explosion directly against the consumer for the last few years, and Zhou added that the cost of using AI has also decreased significantly.
Z.Ai, who was formerly Zhipu, was the last Chinese initiative to reduce operating costs with an open -source AI version on Monday. The pricing was released at the beginning of this month, some of the K2 model of the Alibaba -backed start, and in January, Deepseek’s R1 offered lower rates compared to the charging people to use industry leader Openai to use Chatgpt.
Open source AI models can be used for free and even modified and distributedWithout the special permission of the creator. Users who prefer not to download the model can access them through the cloud and pay per use.
Quality data is new gold
Many businesses realize that they must have better data to effectively implement AI. Even if it takes time for AI application to make money, just like chips, it is a fundamental layer that sees great demand.
The Chinese venture Depexi, supported by venture capital firms Hillhouse and Bai, says that the AI system combines operating data analysis with AI models to “offer zero hallucinations outputs”. This means that the system does not result, since it is quite prone to productive AI models. CNBC could not confirm the claim independently.
Depexi lists Han’s laser technology and customers such as “an anonymous public health operator who controls 40 public hospitals and 100 clinic”.
The start income increased by 88.3% last year and said 242.9 million yuan and depexi in April Filing on the Hong Kong Securities Stock Exchange For a planned list.
Explanation of information lice for data labeling or better AI use, In addition, increasing demand.
Beijing -based Haiti Ruisheng estimated that his revenue in the first half of 2025 last week grew by at least 61% one year ago. His income in 2024 was about 240 million Yuan.
After excluding articles, the profit is expected to double between 4.5 million Yuan and 4.9 million Yuan in the first half of the year. According to the company’s file With the Shanghai Exchange.
Haitian Ruisheng, the company’s secretary Zhang ZHE, translated by CNBC, Mandarin’s secretary Zhang ZHE as a customer of the company as a customer Microsoft and Amazon “magnificent 7” company Byttance, Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu and several US are counting a “magnificent 7” company.
In China, the company has the greatest opportunities to earn money in education, health and tourism, Zhang added that it is potential on smartphones and “concrete intelligence” – a category containing robots.
Haiti Ruisheng, the automatic data additional description of the human experts, the AI requires global cooperation and the company’s company in Singapore with a subsidiary of the overseas market, he added.
Be global
Only days after the US announced the AI action plan, the Shanghai -based “World AI Conference” on Saturday Global AI Cooperation Organization. China wanted to support AI integration in sectors including manufacturing, health, education and agriculture.
Tencent has already taken steps in this direction.
Wu said it has a local partnership in Japan for a “virtual human service” that domestic enterprises can buy. This is a digital avatar of a human being used for live broadcast and other digital content.
Other popular AI business lines in regions such as Wu, Southeast Asia include a platform for finance for “know your customer” authentication, translation services and developers to develop AI agents.
With these business projects and wider state -supported ambitions, China went beyond the laboratories in the global AI race.
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