Tencent: R&D investment in Q2 reached 20.25 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17%.

Tencent's second quarter report shows that in the quarter, Tencent's research and development investment reached 20.25 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17%; capital expenditures were 19.11 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 119%. Under the continued emphasis on AI strategy, Tencent achieved a revenue of 184.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 15%, and an operating profit of 69.25 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 18%. The benefits brought by AI technology are accelerating. In the context of high investment in AI, Tencent has improved the quality and diversity of data through data enhancement and synthesis technology, and has enhanced the basic model capabilities of hybrids through more effective pre-training and post-training extension. The improvement in basic model capabilities has driven the continuous growth of the "hybrid family", especially Tencent's hybrid 3D model has made a series of breakthroughs, including the release of Hybrid 3D v2.5, the launch of the first art-level 3D generation large model, the open source Hybrid 3D v2.1 and 3D world generation model 1.0, etc. Currently, the cumulative download volume of the hybrid 3D series models community has exceeded 2.3 million, and more and more game developers, 3D printing companies, and professional designers are using hybrid 3D models to generate digital assets. At the same time, Tencent's AI applications are accelerating landing. The core capabilities of UBO achieve upgrades such as search, document understanding, and image processing, and the addition of video interpretation functions, deeply integrating into WeChat, QQ, and other scenarios; ima, QQ Browser, and other tools continue to iterate, the WeChat AI function matrix continues to enrich, and the promotion of "easy-to-use AI" penetrates multiple user circles.