<ul><li>Tencent has hired WizardLM, a Microsoft AI research group led by Can Xu, which has joined Hunyuan, one of Tencent's AI development orgs.</li><li>Hunyuan, a part of Tencent, released AI models including video and 3D object generators with the recent release of Hunyuan-TurboS 0416, which outperformed models like Google's Gemma 3 series.</li><li>WizardLM, known for its competitive AI models, faced controversy when Microsoft pulled the model WizardLM-2 for failing to undergo toxicity testing.</li><li>Tencent plans to invest significantly in AI with 90 billion yuan ($12.49 billion) towards capital expenditures this year after attributing 8% year-over-year growth in Q1 2025 to its AI investments.</li></ul>

Tencent hires WizardLM team, a Microsoft AI group with an odd history

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