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Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- ▶ 28:31 Marc Andreessen Um, and then there's, you know, and then, um, you know, there's also Tencent and Baidu, um, and, um, ByteDance, um, you know, that are all primary, you know, companies doing a lot of work in AI.
Dylan Patel on GPT-5’s Router Moment, GPUs vs TPUs, Monetization
- ▶ 44:58 Dylan Patel So it's not like China has this mentality where we only have to, well, the government does, but the infrastructure companies don't, um, like Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, et cetera.
The Future of AI Video: How Fal.ai is Making AI Video Faster & Easier
- ▶ 20:07 unnamed speaker Tencent released Hunyuan.
Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers
- ▶ 19:26 Andrew Chen Um, you know, how active can, you know, a Tencent or a NetEase or, you know, one of those be, and, you know, how easy or hard is it to launch the products in, in Europe?
2024 Big Ideas: Anime Games Go Mainstream with Robin Guo
- ▶ 9:55 unnamed speaker There's obviously big giants like EA or Tencent that have been around forever.
Global Investing in Tech: Pattern Recognition, Founder Traits, Momentum | Field Notes by Connie Chan
- ▶ 15:37 Connie Chan You know, a lot of people, they had spent many years, um, perfecting their work at Tencent or Alibaba, and then they left to go do something else.
How Gaming is Changing the Media Landscape
- ▶ 10:21 John Riccitiello At any given point in time, using mobile as an example, it's not just the top 100 we've cracked, but, you know, the fastest growing game in the world today, Call of Duty, or products like, uh, um, you know, Mario Kart Tour, Pokemon Go,…
- ▶ 21:01 John Riccitiello What's different about e-sports is Tencent or Riot owns League of Legends.
- ▶ 23:04 Andrew Chen Um, and, and, and you mentioned, uh, you mentioned Tencent, um, uh, a second ago. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:58 John Riccitiello What we don't know is some company like Tencent going to figure out how to get global, because that's what they do in China. 2 times in the scene
Four Trends in Consumer Tech
- ▶ 9:58 Connie Chan This is a demo of a UK company that signed a two-year exclusive with Tencent, and they're overlaying all kinds of advertisements and pre-recorded video.
a16z Podcast | Feedback Loops -- Company Culture, Change, and DevOps
- ▶ 20:25 Jez Humble They're jumping straight from no technology to Alibaba and Tencent, right? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Centers of Power, War, and History
- ▶ 6:03 Graham Allison So if you look at Tencent, or at Alibaba, or at Baidu, or at Weibo, you see, I mean, actually, if you just compare in terms of market cap, what's happened in the last, in this year, Tencent and Alibaba are both up 45% just this year.
a16z Podcast | Culture and/of Design
- ▶ 23:45 unnamed speaker Tencent was able to do so many things because they were very orchestrative and architective, like they are the, the architects in the matrix.
a16z Podcast | 'In the Eye of a Tornado': Views on Innovation from China
- ▶ 9:07 Clay Shirky The real question is, and it's a question not just for Xiaomi, but for Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, Sina, the big Chinese internet companies.
a16z Podcast | Reinventing Insurance
- ▶ 21:20 Mike Paulus I think another really interesting, um, company that's, that's flown under the radar a little bit is, is on on, and that's an insurance company backed by Alibaba and Tencent that's raised almost a billion dollars. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Things Come Together -- Truths about Tech in Africa
- ▶ 36:02 Alan Knott Craig Tencent.
a16z Podcast | The Tiger and the Dragon -- On Tech and Startups in India and China
- ▶ 14:57 Connie Chan Um, you have another dynamic where the big players, Tencent, Ali, Baba, and Baidu are all making large investments and acquisitions in the space, so there's a lot of capital coming from strategics. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:14 Connie Chan Yeah, well, I mean, in China, uh, Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, um, but even companies like, like a Xiaomi or a Chihu are very active in areas that are outside of their core product. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:42 Connie Chan I'd say the best students are still open to working at startups, just as they are working at an Alibaba or a Tencent or a Baidu.
a16z Podcast | Messaging As the Interface to Everything
- ▶ 19:56 Connie Chan Well, Tencent already had a product called QQ that was, that is wildly successful right now in China. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:15 Connie Chan A bunch of them, um, that are frequently used, at least among me and my friends, are, um, are ones that are not, uh, not sold by Tencent, but you are actually able to take any GIF, any JPEG, save it as a sticker, and send that along.
- ▶ 40:49 David Pierce And, you know, I don't, I don't pretend to understand the political ambitions of, of Tencent and WeChat, but they have so much power.
a16z Podcast | China and Tech
- ▶ 0:32 Connie Chan B stands for Baidu, A stands for Alibaba, and T stands for Tencent. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:13 Connie Chan But that interest is coming from not just the major strategics like the Tencent, Alibaba, and the Chihus. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:48 Connie Chan But, you know, even on the mapping front, um, while Baidu is the market leader there, I, I looked at Tencent's mapping product recently, and their street view was, uh, phenomenal, phenomenal technology, actually.
When Advertising Isn't Enough
- ▶ 4:38 Connie Chan This is the revenue distribution for Tencent, one of China's most successful consumer internet companies, the makers of the globally famous WeChat. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:46 Connie Chan Tencent is also taking its music business offline. 4 times in the scene
Online to Offline 2.0: Experiments and Examples from China
- ▶ 8:14 unnamed speaker Tencent will call this smart retail.
The Oral History of TrialPay -- Obstacles and Opportunities in Payments
- ▶ 31:55 Terry Angelos One is the idea of verticalized commerce, and this is really an innovation that is coming out of, you know, Alibaba and Tencent, where you have a whole commerce ecosystem, and payments is just embedded as part of that, um, ecosystem. 2 times in the scene
Beyond a Zero-Sum Game: Tech Innovation and China
- ▶ 3:51 Connie Chan If I talk to the users who actually play this game, who play Clash of Clans on a daily basis, I bet you the vast majority of them would not know, would not know that this company is owned by Tencent, a Chinese company listed in Hong Kong.
Rise of the Super App: Mobile-First Product Ideas from China
- ▶ 4:10 Connie Chan The secret for so many Chinese apps that you hear about, the Tencent, the Alibaba, is sharing their user base and sharing their traffic to retain mindshare and relevance.
AI: What's Working, What's Not
- ▶ 0:34 Frank Chen In China, it's BAT, it's Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent.