Tencent claims 20% gain in R&D efficiency from AI automation

South China Morning PostCenterEN 1 min read 100% complete by Vincent ChowOctober 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM

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Tencent Holdings reported a more than 20% increase in R&D efficiency due to AI automation through its internal platform WeDev, as detailed in its Research and Development Big Data Report 2025 released on Friday. The implementation of WeDev resulted in a 67% rise in R&D automation rates. Over a quarter of code-related issues across Tencent's products were detected by AI this year, reducing bug-fixing time by an average of eight hours per issue. Additionally, 90% of Tencent engineers are using the company’s CodeBuddy AI coding tools powered by its Hunyuan foundational models.

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