Ma Huateng

2025.03.27

07:10

Zhang Yiming becomes China's richest man

Both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and the Forbes Rich List show that ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming topped the Chinese rich list and became China's richest man. Forbes estimates that Zhang Yiming's net worth is US$65.5 billion, ranking 23rd on the global rich list, while Ma Huateng and Zhong Shanshan are ranked 27th and 28th on the rich list with a net worth of US$53.5 billion and US$53.1 billion respectively. The Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimates that Zhang Yiming's net worth is US$57.5 billion, ranking 24th on the global rich list, while Ma Huateng and Zhong Shanshan are ranked 25th and 26th respectively.

2025.03.19

18:34

Ma Huateng talks about DeepSeek: I admire, respect and embrace the development of open source AI applications

On March 19, Tencent Chairman and CEO Ma Huateng talked about DeepSeek at the 2024 financial report media communication meeting and said that after the deep thinking model came out, AI (artificial intelligence) intelligence has been greatly improved compared with before, and after the emergence of DeepSeek, open source and Chinese engineers have obvious advantages in focusing on cost and efficiency. "I particularly admire the emergence of such a truly open source and very free product on the market, and it is the first to make deep thinking public, and even the large model development in many countries has benefited (from this). I think this is a very great thing, so we also respect and embrace it very much." Ma Huateng said. He revealed that Tencent's current application platforms, including cloud and Yuanbao clients, have actively embraced DeepSeek.

17:51

Ma Huateng: I have communicated with Liang Wenfeng. The AI ecosystem is still in its early stages.

In the Tencent annual report communication meeting, Tencent CEO Ma Huateng said that the intelligence level of AI has been greatly improved compared with previous years. After careful consideration, Tencent's cloud business and Yuanbao have embraced DeepSeek. The opportunity for future application development has arrived. All companies are adopting AI for implementation, and we have also seen the development of AI Agents. There is a lot of room for imagination for AI-related tools behind it. At present, the AI ecosystem is still in its early stages, and all walks of life will benefit from the popularization of AI. I believe that every industry will embrace this opportunity. We have communicated with Liang Wenfeng in the industry, and we admire the emergence of independent, open source products on the market. We respect them very much.

2025.02.12

13:20

Guangdong Governor Wang Weizhong inspected Leju Robotics and had in-depth exchanges with Ma Huateng

From February 10 to 11, Guangdong Governor Wang Weizhong went to Shenzhen to investigate the development of innovative industries. On February 10, Wang Weizhong and his delegation visited Tencent and had in-depth exchanges with Tencent founder Ma Huateng, investigated the company's innovative research and development, achievement transformation, and visited the humanoid robot cooperation project between Tencent and Leju. On February 11, Wang Weizhong and his delegation inspected the leading achievements of Leju Kuafu humanoid robot in running, upper and lower limb coordination, etc. Leng Xiaokun, chairman of Leju Robotics, reported on Leju's technological innovation, ecological system construction and industrialization in the field of humanoid robots.

2025.01.13

15:30

Ma Huateng talks about the “Send Gifts” feature launched on WeChat Store

On the afternoon of January 13, the Tencent Group Annual Meeting was held in Shenzhen. Regarding the "send gifts" function recently launched by WeChat Store, some people call it "WeChat blue envelope" and compare it with WeChat red envelope. Ma Huateng said that he hopes the outside world will not over-hype this function. WeChat will take 5 years or even longer to be an e-commerce ecological connector, give full play to the power of social networking, pay attention to slow work and fine work, and make it a boutique. In terms of PCG (Platform and Content Business Group), Ma Huateng mentioned that long videos have developed steadily, and short dramas have a great impact on the original ecology. The audience mainly watches high-quality long dramas, while mid- and low-end long dramas are affected. Tencent does not make low-quality short dramas itself, but will invest in high-quality short dramas.

2024.12.12

10:42

Ma Huateng: Contribute the power of the Internet to economic recovery

Ma Huateng published an article on People's Daily Online saying that Tencent, as a digital technology company, actively responded to the country's deployment to expand domestic demand and actively explored the development of digital consumption. The company optimized consumption tools such as WeChat payment and tried e-commerce businesses such as video live streaming to create and serve effective demand and promote economic circulation. At the same time, Tencent relied on the WeChat ecosystem to increase the absorption and friendliness of employment and entrepreneurship, and last year it provided employment and income opportunities for more than 50 million people. In the future, Tencent will also increase investment, commit to technological innovation and industrial upgrading, and work with private enterprises to contribute to the stable and healthy development of China's economy.

2021.03.05

04:33

Tecent's Ma Huateng makes first public appearance after two years

On the morning of March 4, Ma Huateng, CEO of Tencent, appeared at the discussion site of the Guangdong delegation at China’s Two Sessions, as a deputy to the National People’s Congress (NPC). This is also his first appearance after disappearing from the public eye for nearly 2 years due to a recurrence of his back injury.

2021.02.12

02:17

Tencent's Ma Huateng hasn't appeared in public for almost 2 years

According to public records, Ma Huateng(Pony Ma)'s last public appearance in mainland China was in August 2019, when he attended the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAI) in Shanghai.

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