WAIC Shanghai: Tencent, SenseTime launch new AI models to stir up industry rivalry
Big Tech companies are banking on their artificial intelligence businesses to deliver the next wave of revenue streams
Shenzhen-based social media and gaming powerhouse Tencent unveiled its Hunyuan 3D World Model 1.0, an open-source AI model capable of generating detailed three-dimensional environments, according to a statement. SenseTime, an AI pioneer in China, launched SenseNova V6.5, a new generation of its proprietary AI model series.
Tencent said its latest Hunyuan model could create interactive, 360-degree virtual 3D scenes using natural language prompts or image inputs, thus significantly simplifying the production process for virtual reality experiences and video games.
Tencent said Hunyuan was the industry’s first open-source 3D world-generation AI fully compatible with “CG pipelines” – the standard workflow used for creating 3D graphics and animations in film production, gaming and visual effects.
The introduction followed months after it launched the previous version called SenseNova V6, a multimodal model released in April that had outperformed OpenAI’s GPT-4o across several metrics.