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CX Daily: Alibaba Fights Tencent for Dominance Over AI in China

Published: Jun. 24, 2025  8:25 a.m.  GMT+8
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Cover Story: Alibaba fights Tencent for dominance over AI in China

The world watched in February as a new name surged onto the global AI stage: DeepSeek. The Chinese startup, practically unknown weeks earlier, suddenly found itself the talk of Silicon Valley and Zhongguancun alike — and its 40-year-old founder, Liang Wenfeng, seated beside Tencent’s Pony Ma and Alibaba’s Jack Ma at a high-level private sector entrepreneurs’ roundtable with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing.

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