DeepSeek's (DS) low-cost, high-performance open-source model fundamentally altered the AI landscape, but server overload of DS's chatbot caused poor user experience;
Among many Internet platforms that integrated DS into their products, Tencent stood to benefit the most. Through DS, Tencent LLM climbed 3 spots to unseat ByteDance to become the No.1;
What Tencent has done right including preprocessing, answer caching and building dedicated nodes. Now Manus is catching the imagination of AI monetization, Tencent can possible benefit more.