Deep|Tencent: WeChat Deepseek—The World’s Largest AI Application

Evaluating Costs, Competitive Advantages, and Monetization Potential

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On February 16, Tencent—China’s largest publicly traded tech company—rolled out a WeChat-integrated version of Deepseek, essentially embedding CoT capabilities inside the WeChat ecosystem.

Key Features

• Full R1 Functionality
  WeChat Deepseek offers the complete feature set of DeepSeek R1.

• WeChat Public Accounts Integration
  Unlike Bytedance’s DouBao or Deepseek’s own standalone products, WeChat Deepseek can search WeChat public accounts.

  • Think of WeChat public accounts as the combined equivalent of all U.S. blogs, Substack, and Medium content.

  • This is a major advantage over the META AI assistant, as WeChat’s high-quality content library far exceeds META’s.

• No Access to Private Chats
  Currently, WeChat Deepseek cannot search personal chat records.