Tencent
Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services.
Crunchbase, retrieved 2024-05-16| Country | China |
|---|---|
| Sector | Software & IT Services |
| Website | https://www.tencent.com/ |
Between 2014 and 2024, Tencent researchers released4,915 AI research articles
- #4in PARAT for number of AI research articles
- 34.49citations per AI article on average (#104 in PARAT)
- 1,162highly cited articles (#4 in PARAT)
- +17.4%growth in Tencent's public AI research (2019–2022)
- 2,316articles at top AI conferences (#3 in PARAT)
- 73%of Tencent's total public research was AI-focused
Tencent's top AI research topics
Subfield | Articles | Citations per article | Growth (2019–2022) |
|---|---|---|---|
| CV publications | 2217 | 44.1 | 23 |
| NLP publications | 1195 | 25.4 | 5.15 |
| Robotics publications | 197 | 15 | 43.06 |
| AI safety publications | 228 | 48.7 | 6.77 |
| Large language model publications | 571 | 28.8 | 22.68 |
Between 2014 and 2024, Tencent filed10,493 AI-related patents
- #2in PARAT for number of AI-related patents filed
- 153.6%growth in Tencent's AI-related patent filing (2016–2019)
- 4,466AI-related patents were granted to Tencent (2016–2019)
- 22%of Tencent's filed patents were AI-related
Top AI application areas across Tencent's filed patents
Subfield | Patents filed | Growth (2016–2019) |
|---|---|---|
| Computer vision patents | 1844 | 122.54% |
| Speech processing patents | 728 | 168.33% |
| Planning and scheduling patents | 302 | 78.89% |
| Analytics and algorithms patents | 168 | 125.85% |
| Measuring and testing patents | 122 | 183.33% |
Top use cases across Tencent's filed AI patents
Subfield | Patents filed | Growth (2016–2019) |
|---|---|---|
| Personal devices and computing patents | 5544 | 149.79% |
| Telecommunications patents | 1150 | 84.03% |
| Business patents | 672 | 86.6% |
| Transportation patents | 445 | 387.22% |
| Entertainment patents | 425 | 217.75% |
PARAT workforce data for this Chinese company are unreliable. Use with extreme caution. Read more >>
1,010
AI jobs
According to our data, Tencent currently employs about 1,010 AI workers (#38 rank in PARAT). AI workers in PARAT include anyone a high probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
6,457
Tech Team 1 jobs
According to our data, Tencent currently employs about 6,457 Tech Team 1 workers (#65 rank in PARAT).Tech Team 1 workers include anyone with technical skills and a reasonable probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
The AI activity metrics in the Private-Sector AI Indicators dataset are derived from data from Revelio Labs, Clarivate Web of Science, and other leading sources. Additional descriptive metadata in PARAT comes from the Crunchbase Open Data Map (powered by Crunchbase) and PermID. Emerging technology topic classifications are based on work supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation under Grant No. G-2023-22358. For details on our sourcing, methodology, and limitations, see the tool documentation.