Tencent

Company overview

Tencent is a Chinese technology company that runs WeChat, China's biggest messaging and payments app, used by more than a billion people. It is also one of the world's largest video game companies, and owns music and video streaming services, an online advertising business and Tencent Cloud. It holds stakes in many other technology companies in China and abroad. Its AI lab develops large language models and has built tools for drug discovery that use protein and molecular data to help researchers find new medicine candidates. Most of its revenue comes from games, social media and payments.