{"id":260220,"date":"2025-11-13T09:55:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/260220\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T09:55:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:55:17","slug":"chinese-tech-giant-tencents-quarterly-revenue-rises-15-fueled-by-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/260220\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese tech giant Tencent’s quarterly revenue rises 15%, fueled by AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tencent<\/a> on Thursday posted 15% year-on-year revenue growth, with AI boosting the Chinese tech giant’s performance in advertising targeting and gaming.<\/p>\n

Here’s how Tencent performed in the third quarter of 2025, per earnings released on Thursday:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Revenue:\u00a0192.9 billion Chinese yuan ($27.12 billion), surpassing the 189.2 billion Chinese yuan expected analysts, according to data compiled by LSEG.\u00a0Operating profit:\u00a063.6 billion yuan, versus\u00a058.01\u00a0billion yuan expected by the street. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Gaming, marketing and social media services, which makes up Tencent’s core business,\u00a0raked in 95.9 billion Chinese yuan, representing 16% year-on-year growth.<\/p>\n

Domestic games venues rose 15% over the same period, driven by the recently-released “Delta Force” and “VALORANT MOBILE,” the latter of which has become “China’s most successful mobile game launch year-to-date,” Tencent said.<\/p>\n

International gaming efforts, which has been its fastest-growing segment in recent times, soared 43% year-on-year to 20.8 billion Chinese yuan. The firm attributed this growth to “Clash Royale” and “Dying Light: The Beast,” as well as higher revenues from Supercell’s games and an acquisition.<\/p>\n

Tencent boosted its capital expenditure earlier this year as it ramped up AI and eyed European expansion for its cloud computing<\/a> services, which would compete against market leaders Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.<\/p>\n

The company updated its foundational AI model, HunYuan, improving its coding, math, and science capabilities. The tech firm also uses DeepSeek in some products. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Tencent shares are up 56.7% year-to-date.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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