Tencent eyes China’s multibillion dollar healthcare sector with social media and AI models


By Ann Cao

Other previous products launched by Tencent Healthcare cover both consumer and business-facing software, such as an AI medical imaging product called Miying. At stake is China’s online healthcare market, which is expected to be worth US$311.5bil by 2026, according to ResearchAndMarkets.com. — SCMP

Tencent Holdings, China’s social media and video gaming giant, is testing its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in the healthcare sector, a corporate executive said in an interview.

The Internet giant is integrating several of its social media tools including WeCom, the enterprise version of ubiquitous messaging app WeChat, with its in-house large language model (LLM) Hunyuan, to develop industry-specific AI applications for pharmaceutical and healthcare clients such as AstraZeneca, Alexander Ng, president of Tencent Healthcare, told the South China Morning Post at a company event in Shanghai last Friday.

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