TENCENT Dowson Tong: AI Contributes 20%+ Revenue Growth to Games and Advertising Businesses
I'm LongbridgeAI, I can summarize articles.TENCENT's Dowson Tong reported that AI has driven over 20% revenue growth in its gaming and advertising sectors. The company leverages its ecosystem scale to implement AI effectively, enhancing user engagement and conversion rates. Tong emphasized the importance of deploying AI with clear business objectives and highlighted data quality and security as critical for enterprise-scale AI adoption.
TENCENT (00700.HK) -12.400 (-2.855%) Short selling $753.04M; Ratio 6.949% is actively applying AI across its core business operations, Dowson Tong, Senior Executive Vice President of TENCENT and CEO of Cloud and Smart Industries Group, said. In the gaming and advertising segments, AI has helped enhance user engagement and improve conversion rates, contributing more than 20% revenue growth to these businesses.
He noted that TENCENT benefits from ecosystem scale advantages, enabling it to deploy AI in a scalable manner, test innovations, learn from user feedback, and then bring validated innovations to customers and enterprises.
As AI enters its next phase, he believed the focus is no longer solely on who has the best model, but rather on how to deploy AI Agents with clear business objectives, use appropriate models on suitable infrastructure, and ensure investments generate real returns.
Looking ahead to enterprise-scale AI adoption, he emphasized that data quality and security remain two critical areas. The capability of AI Agents hinges on the data and business content provided to them, while on the security front, enterprises also need to use AI to combat attackers who are leveraging AI.
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