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Tencent rents 100,000 chips from Oracle to speed up its AI push
- Publication
- Financial Times (United Kingdom)
- Author
- Unsigned
- Published on
- 1 October 2026 · read in the publisher's feed
Summary
Tencent, owner of WeChat, has concluded an agreement with Oracle to access the US group's data centres in South-East Asia, renting 100,000 chips. The deal is part of the artificial intelligence race between Chinese tech giants, with Tencent competing against ByteDance and Alibaba in this field.
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100,000 chips
number of chips rented by Tencent from Oracle
« Tencent leases 100,000 chips from Oracle to accelerate AI push »
Classification
- Country
- China, United States
- Company size
- Large companies
- Industries
- Software vendors, IT services companies, telecoms
- Companies
- Tencent (deploys AI), Alibaba (cited), ByteDance (cited), Oracle (supplier)
- Keywords
- AI infrastructure, chips, data centres, cloud, tencent, oracle
Entry written by Marsanne Studio from the cited article, with the help of an AI model (claude-sonnet-5). The rights to the article and its illustrations belong to Financial Times. Entry translated from French by Claude Sonnet 5.5.