{"id":26845,"date":"2025-07-11T11:05:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T04:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=26845"},"modified":"2025-07-11T11:05:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T04:05:01","slug":"tencent-hosts-chinas-first-all-modal-generative-recommendation-competition-attracting-more-than-6000-students-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=26845","title":{"rendered":"Tencent Hosts China&#8217;s First All-Modal Generative Recommendation Competition, Attracting More Than 6,000 Students Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <span class=\"legendSpanClass\">HONG KONG<\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\">July 11, 2025<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; The 2025 Tencent Advertising Algorithm Competition, which challenges students to leverage AI to develop a recommendation engine, has already drawn 6,000 applicants \u2013 including nearly 500 students from overseas universities. The competition, China&#8217;s first focusing on multimodal generative large language models, launched on June 16 and has a lucrative prize pool for the winners, including millions of yuan in cash and even the chance to work at Tencent.<\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\">\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2727676\/image_5024237_44241061.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2727676\/image_5024237_44241061.jpg?p=medium600\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/> <\/a> <br \/><span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <b> <i> <u>A Deep Partnership Between Industry and Academia <\/u> <\/i> <\/b> <\/p>\n<p>The competition, which is hosted by Tencent Marketing Solution, centers on the industry&#8217;s frontier AI technology: multi-modal generative recommendations. Applicants are provided with anonymized multi-modal user behavior sequences from which to build their recommendation algorithm. Judges include distinguished scholars from world-renowned universities, leading tech experts, and Tencent&#8217;s own specialists.<\/p>\n<p> <b> <i> <u>Cultivating Talent and Driving Technological Innovation<\/u> <\/i> <\/b> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Generative recommendation is reshaping every industry,&#8221; said Jiang Jie, Vice President of Tencent and one of the judges. &#8220;Through real business scenarios, this competition aims to find trailblazers who can unlock the potential of multi-modal generative AI.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Past participants in the Tencent Advertising Algorithm Competition have gone on to join Tencent and applied their competition insights to real-world work scenarios. Zhang Chang, a participant in the first competition, later joined Tencent and successfully applied the solution approach\u2014freshness features\u2014from the competition&#8217;s topic &#8220;Mobile App Conversion Rate Estimation&#8221; to the recommendation system to boost ad click-through rates by 2%. Participants Wang Zhaobing and Li Qiang have also contributed to Tencent&#8217;s commercialization efforts on platforms such as Tencent Video and the Tencent Advertising Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>The event underscores Tencent&#8217;s strong commitment to cultivating AI talent and driving innovation in AI technologies. According to Tencent&#8217;s 2025 first-quarter financial report, the company&#8217;s AI capabilities have already made a tangible contribution to its businesses, with marketing service revenues growing by 20% year-over-year to RMB 31.9 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Registration for this competition closes on July 31, 2025. For more details, please visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/algo.qq.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/algo.qq.com\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"legendSpanClass\">HONG KONG<\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\">July 11, 2025<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; The 2025 Tencent Advertising Algorithm Competition, which challenges students to leverage AI to develop a recommendation engine, has already drawn 6,000 applicants \u2013 including nearly 500 students from overseas universities. The competition, China&#8217;s first focusing on multimodal generative large language models, launched on June 16 and has a lucrative prize pool for the winners, including millions of yuan in cash and even the chance to work at Tencent.<\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\">\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2727676\/image_5024237_44241061.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2727676\/image_5024237_44241061.jpg?p=medium600\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/> <\/a> <br \/><span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <b> <i> <u>A Deep Partnership Between Industry and Academia <\/u> <\/i> <\/b> <\/p>\n<p>The competition, which is hosted by Tencent Marketing Solution, centers on the industry&#8217;s frontier AI technology: multi-modal generative recommendations. Applicants are provided with anonymized multi-modal user behavior sequences from which to build their recommendation algorithm. Judges include distinguished scholars from world-renowned universities, leading tech experts, and Tencent&#8217;s own specialists.<\/p>\n<p> <b> <i> <u>Cultivating Talent and Driving Technological Innovation<\/u> <\/i> <\/b> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Generative recommendation is reshaping every industry,&#8221; said Jiang Jie, Vice President of Tencent and one of the judges. &#8220;Through real business scenarios, this competition aims to find trailblazers who can unlock the potential of multi-modal generative AI.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Past participants in the Tencent Advertising Algorithm Competition have gone on to join Tencent and applied their competition insights to real-world work scenarios. Zhang Chang, a participant in the first competition, later joined Tencent and successfully applied the solution approach\u2014freshness features\u2014from the competition&#8217;s topic &#8220;Mobile App Conversion Rate Estimation&#8221; to the recommendation system to boost ad click-through rates by 2%. Participants Wang Zhaobing and Li Qiang have also contributed to Tencent&#8217;s commercialization efforts on platforms such as Tencent Video and the Tencent Advertising Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>The event underscores Tencent&#8217;s strong commitment to cultivating AI talent and driving innovation in AI technologies. According to Tencent&#8217;s 2025 first-quarter financial report, the company&#8217;s AI capabilities have already made a tangible contribution to its businesses, with marketing service revenues growing by 20% year-over-year to RMB 31.9 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Registration for this competition closes on July 31, 2025. 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