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Tencent signs ~$7B Oracle deal for 100K AI chips via Southeast Asia

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Sources report Tencent signed a five-year deal worth about $7 billion with Oracle this year, granting access to roughly 100,000 advanced AI chips unavailable in China, delivered via Oracle's Southeast Asian data centers. The move comes amid an intensifying AI race with ByteDance and Alibaba.

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    Sources: Tencent signed a ~$7B, five-year deal with Oracle this year for access to ~100K advanced AI chips unavailable in China via Southeast Asian data centers (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)

    Zijing Wu / Financial Times : Sources: Tencent signed a ~$7B, five-year deal with Oracle this year for access to ~100K advanced AI chips unavailable in China via Southeast Asian data centers — WeChat owner strikes deal to access US group's south-east Asia data centres amid race with ByteDance and Alibaba

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