
Tencent's 7B Voice AI Targets OpenAI's Realtime API
Tencent open-sources Covo-Audio, a 7B end-to-end audio language model with native full-duplex conversation that beats larger closed models on key benchmarks.

Tencent open-sources Covo-Audio, a 7B end-to-end audio language model with native full-duplex conversation that beats larger closed models on key benchmarks.

Tencent's 2025 results beat estimates, with the company spending $2.6B on AI last year and planning to at least double that in 2026 despite ongoing GPU supply constraints from US export controls.

Tencent hosted free OpenClaw installations at its Shenzhen headquarters while the local government rolled out subsidies up to 10 million yuan for companies building on the platform.