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Tencent Founder Rallies Half of Staff Behind AI-Native Push
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Asia Tencent Founder Rallies Half of Staff Behind AI-Native Push Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s billionaire founder Pony Ma said he’s willing to deploy half of his troops to AI-native businesses, urging his 100,000-strong workforce to embrace an era-defining technology. In his annual speech marking the company’s anniversary, Ma told employees this week that the industry has entered an “Age of Discovery,” comparing Tencent’s core businesses to an army and its new AI endeavors to a navy. “The army...
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Tencent Founder Rallies Half of Staff Behind AI-Native Push
Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s billionaire founder Pony Ma said he’s willing to deploy half of his troops to AI-native businesses, urging his 100,000-strong workforce to embrace an era-defining technology.
In his annual speech marking the company’s anniversary, Ma told employees this week that the industry has entered an “Age of Discovery,” comparing Tencent’s core businesses to an army and its new AI endeavors to a navy. “The army must leverage AI to maximize its efficiency, while we redeploy 50% of our personnel to the navy to support AI-native businesses,” he said, according to people with knowledge of the event.