Surpassing DeepSeek, Tencent Yuanbao Rises to the Top of the Download Ranking
On March 3rd, the reporter found out that Tencent Holdings Ltd. (HK00700, stock price of 517.000 Hong Kong dollars, market value of 4.7 trillion Hong Kong dollars) subsidiary Tencent Yuanbao App has risen from second place to first place in the free app download ranking on the China region Apple App Store, surpassing DeepSeek.
Tencent Yuanbao took less than 10 days to move from second place to first place. On February 22nd, Tencent Yuanbao surpassed Dou Bao and rose to second place in the China region Apple free app download ranking, while DeepSeek remained at the top.
On February 21st, Tencent Yuanbao’s download ranking was behind Dou Bao and ranked third; just one day later it jumped to second place.
Over the past two weeks, Tencent Yuanbao has undergone a series of rapid iterations. On February 13th, Tencent Yuanbao integrated DeepSeek-R1 Full Blood Edition, supporting both Hunyuan and DeepSeek models; on February 17th, the deep thinking model ‘Hunyuan T1’ was launched in grayscale; on February 18th, emergency support for WeChat search was provided to enable more users to use DeepSeek; on February 19th, the full version of the deep thinking model ‘Hunyuan T1’ went live; on February 21st, both DeepSeek and Hunyuan models were able to understand image information; on February 25th, support was added to export conversations as long images.
On March 1st, Tencent AI Assistant ‘Tencent Yuanbao’ officially released its desktop version supporting Windows and macOS systems. It is designed for work and study scenarios with the aim of helping users reduce burdens and improve efficiency.
In addition to having core functions consistent with mobile and web versions, the desktop version will introduce more convenient features in the future such as word selection search and translation, screenshot questioning etc., further enhancing user experience.
Tencent stated that in the future Tencent Yuanbao will continue optimizing product performance by introducing more innovative features to enhance AI application experience meeting user needs across various scenarios.
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