Tencent’s AI chatbot app, Yuanbao, has climbed to the highest of the free app obtain rankings in Apple’s China App Retailer as of March 3, surpassing DeepSeek. Doubao, a competing AI chatbot from TikTok proprietor ByteDance, now ranks fourth. This milestone comes simply 10 days after Yuanbao overtook Doubao to succeed in the No. 2 spot on Feb. 22.

Tencent’s Yuanbao has seen fast updates in latest weeks. On Feb. 13, it started supporting each Tencent’s Hunyuan mannequin and DeepSeek-R1, providing customers free entry to the latter’s full-capacity model. It is usually built-in with Tencent’s ecosystem, together with WeChat’s public accounts and video platform. Additional enhancements adopted, with the roll-out of Hunyuan’s superior Thinker (T1) mannequin on Feb. 17, full-scale implementation on Feb. 19, and picture comprehension capabilities on Feb. 21. A PC model for Home windows and macOS launched on March 1.

Tencent’s advertising technique, together with heavy advert spending on main platforms, has boosted Yuanbao’s downloads. Business knowledge exhibits Tencent invested RMB 2.81 billion ($390 million) in promoting over 27 days, primarily after Feb. 13. [Jiemian, in Chinese]

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