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It sits third in the China cloud market behind Alibaba Cloud and Huawei Cloud, with roughly 15% domestic share, and roughly 2% of global cloud infrastructure spend.\\n\\nTencent's AI infrastructure narrative is dominated by two constraints: US export controls limiting access to top-tier Nvidia silicon, and internal demand from the Hunyuan model family (Hunyuan-Large MoE, Hunyuan-T1 reasoning, Hunyuan3D). Tencent has publicly acknowledged stockpiling Nvidia H20 accelerators, the China-compliant Hopper variant, and rerouting inference workloads onto them, while also qualifying domestic silicon. The company has not disclosed a specific GPU count. Parent Tencent guided 2025 capex to a low-teens percentage of revenue, a step up from prior years and explicitly earmarked for AI infrastructure serving both first-party (Hunyuan, ad ranking, WeChat features) and third-party cloud customers.\\n\\nCompared with the Western neocloud pack (CoreWeave, Nebius, Crusoe), Tencent Cloud is not a merchant GPU renter chasing model labs; it is a diversified hyperscaler whose AI capacity is captive-first, with external GPU-as-a-service and Hunyuan model APIs sold through its TokenHub product. 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