SHANGHAI, Aug.11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — On August 10, 2025, the second round of the 2025 CTCC China Touring Car Championship Ordos Race delivered thrilling competition. The TCR China Series, CTCC China Cup, and the co-organized Lynk & Co Cup reignited their battles across three fronts, jointly offering peak-level duels. Simultaneously, rich cultural tourism activities once again complemented the intense racing, co-writing a joyful chapter for the Ordos racing weekend.

TCR China Series: Lynk & Co Army Dominates Top Five

The Lynk & Co camp achieved a resounding victory in the TCR China Series. The Lynk & Co Teamwork Motorsport swept the podium in the TCR China Touring Car Championship: Zhu Daiwei claimed victory, Zhang Zhiqiang took second place, and Sunny Wang secured third. The Lynk & Co army not only executed team tactics once more but also engaged in fierce internal battles, providing spectators with spectacular offensive and defensive duels.

Teamwork Motorsport’s Paul Poon once again won the TCR China Touring Car Championship Challenge Cup category at the Ordos race. Guangzhou Spark Racing’s Liang Jingxi shook off the disappointment of the first round, bringing home the category runner-up position. Guiyang DTM Racing By FORCE’s Hu Heng earned the category’s third place.

In the TCR China Challenge, Guangzhou Spark Racing’s Liang Jingxi shook off the disappointment of the first round, securing the TCR China Touring Car Championship Challenge Cup category runner-up position. Zhejiang 326 Racing Team’s Liu Zichen took second place, and the Delta Racing Team’s Liu Chao, competing on home turf, finished third.

China Cup: Gao Huayang Secures Victory with Last-Lap “Steal”

In the China Cup battle, SAIC Volkswagen 333 Racing Team’s Gao Huayang delivered a stellar performance on the final lap, completing multiple overtakes to “steal the win” and take the overall victory and the TCS class win. The Zhejiang 326 Racing Team trio of Liu Ning / Zhao Shiyan / Wu Yifan clinched victory in the TCR class. Beijing Seven Degrees Racing’s An Junda / Guo Shen reversed their fortunes to triumph in the TC1 class.

LPCC Racing Team’s duo Bao Xuejiao / Liu Chao took the win in the TC2 class. Shenzhen Bonoo Racing Team’s Li Jiajun / Yu Xiaobo made further progress, becoming the new winners in the TC3 class.

Beyond the thrilling track action, the CTCC Ordos race also featured car stunt shows, the CTCC Ordos Rap & EDM Music Festival, and driver autograph sessions. The spectator activity zone boasted booths from the CTCC Official Store, Michelin, Dongchedi, and others, responding to fan enthusiasm with rich and engaging prize-winning interactions and immersive experiences.

By meticulously constructing an innovative “three-in-one” model integrating “top-tier racing, immersive experiences, and spectacular performances,” CTCC transformed the Ordos race into a motorsport culture festival for all. It fully showcased the immense charm of motorsport and the vigorous vitality of integrated cultural, sports, and tourism development. Furthermore, it served as a golden link for Ordos’ cultural tourism, presenting the city’s exciting events to audiences both at home and abroad. Through the traffic window created by CTCC, Ordos conveyed to the world the industrial dynamism, ecological landscape, and racing passion of the “Warm City.”

Next, CTCC will return to the Shanghai International Circuit. Stay tuned!

HONG KONG, Aug. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Tencent Cloud, the cloud business of global technology company Tencent, today announced the upgrade of its AIoT 2.0 product solutions, which will deliver seamless hardware-software integration with ready-to-use multimodal capabilities. The enhanced offering features TWeTalk (voice intelligence system) and TWeSee (video intelligence system), both deeply integrated into Tencent Cloud’s foundational AIoT platform for device management, messaging, and end-to-end audio & video communications. Together, these solutions provide users with a comprehensive, intuitive one-stop service, while also supporting the global expansion of smart hardware.

As artificial intelligence continues to advance, AIoT products are transitioning from simply being “AI-assisted” to becoming truly “AI-driven.” By addressing challenges such as complex system integrations, model adaptations, and high development and deployment costs, AIoT 2.0 harnesses Tencent Cloud’s deep expertise in AI, IoT, and audio & video technologies. These solutions facilitate seamless integration between hardware and software, making interactions among people, devices, and systems smarter, more efficient, and more user-friendly.

AIoT 2.0: A New Standard for Intelligent Device Development

The upgraded AIoT 2.0 product suite—featuring TWeTalk, TWeSee, and the foundational AIoT platform—sets a new benchmark for intelligent device development.

“Compared to version 1.0, AIoT 2.0 offers deeper integration with AI technologies, particularly in Voice and Visual Agents, delivering significant enhancements in both functionality and user experience,” said the Tencent Cloud AIoT team.

TWeTalk delivers a comprehensive AI conversational solution for smart hardware, with a focus on advanced Voice Agent functionality and real-time audio-video communication capabilities (TRTC/WebSocket). On the device side, TWeTalk partners with leading embedded chip and module manufacturers to integrate core technologies such as noise reduction, wake word detection, and sound source localization. On the cloud side, it provides essential services and distinctive features including speech-to-text (STT) with emotion recognition, voice broadcasting, text-to-speech (TTS), voice customization, WeChat call integration, and conversation highlights. TWeTalk also offers robust AI platform capabilities such as model fine-tuning, agent customization, knowledge graphs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and model context protocol (MCP).

Additionally, TWeTalk integrates seamlessly with Tencent’s extensive ecosystem, broadening its range of applications. For communications, TWeTalk enables two-way audio & video calls (VoIP) between devices and WeChat, making it suitable for a wide array of use cases. In terms of content, it supports integration with QQ Music, allowing users to easily access music through voice commands for a more convenient listening experience. Looking ahead, TWeTalk will also enable wearable devices such as smartwatches and AR glasses to support WeChat Pay, enabling smooth and secure payments directly from these devices.

Users can customize these features to suit their specific business needs, assembling them in a modular, building block–style approach for highly tailored solutions. Through close collaboration with leading chip and module partners, TWeTalk ensures optimized compatibility, allowing users to deploy finely tuned large AI models with minimal chip resources. This approach delivers cost-effective, full-scenario edge-cloud collaboration and significantly lowers the development barrier for smart hardware.

Currently, TWeTalk is widely used across a range of applications, including companion toys, robotics, smart wearables, live translation headphones, smart ordering systems, intelligent tours, and AI interviews. It enables natural conversations between users and smart devices with end-to-end latency below 800 ms. For example, Dahua’s intelligent surveillance solutions leverage Tencent Cloud’s technology to allow IPC (Internet Protocol Camera) devices with screens to make native WeChat calls. This ensures users receive WeChat notifications directly on their devices without the need to install additional applications, thus important calls are never missed.

TWeSee is dedicated to advanced visual solutions, offering video condensation, summarization, search, and object detection—powered by visual agents with perception, reasoning, and autonomous decision-making capabilities. With TWeSee, visual capture devices progress from merely “seeing” to truly “understanding”, transforming into intelligent systems able to perform multimodal perception, multi-dimensional analysis, and scenario-based decision making. On the integration side, TWeSee provides plug-and-play AI visual analytics for audio and video equipment connected to the Tencent Cloud AIoT platform, while also offering seamless access for third-party cloud storage users. This greatly shortens the time-to-market for smart applications.

Powered by self-developed multimodal large models, TWeSee is specifically optimized for use cases such as IPCs, smart locks, and security surveillance, continuously enhancing video understanding across diverse scenarios. For instance, with IPC devices, TWeSee can automatically generate concise video highlights of important events and deliver real-time alerts. Additionally, TWeSee supports natural language search, enabling precise and intelligent indexing across large video datasets.

In pet monitoring scenarios, TWeSee can condense video footage of pets into engaging video highlights. For playback retrieval, users can search using text or images, and when paired with TWeTalk, voice search is also supported—for example, “retrieve footage of yesterday’s delivery worker”. In industrial settings, TWeSee delivers advanced visual analytics for applications such as supermarket foot traffic analysis, shelf stockout detection, theft identification, and monitoring employee behavior, providing valuable customer insights and timely theft alerts. With its robust and adaptable visual understanding capabilities, TWeSee quickly adapts to a wide range of customer needs and industry requirements, enabling smart devices to fully realize the vision of an intelligent and connected world.

From “General Intelligence” to “Scenario Intelligence”: Global Implementation Redefines the AIoT Interaction Experience

With the rapid advancement of AIoT technology, the boundaries of hardware devices are constantly expanding, and industry focus has shifted from pure technical competition to ecosystem building. The ability to achieve real-world implementation across various application scenarios has become a key measure of enterprise competitiveness. Tencent Cloud’s AIoT 2.0 product solutions are deeply integrated into industries and use cases worldwide, driving intelligent transformation across a diverse range of sectors.

In the AI toy sector, Tencent Cloud equips Alpha Group‘s Weslie 3.0 smart toy with a comprehensive TWeTalk voice solution, offering features such as WeChat calling and voice customization. Jianing Lv, Product Head of Alpha Group’s Intelligent Toy Division, shared: “With AI technology, we hope Weslie can evolve from a 2D cartoon character into a true smart companion—capable of making WeChat calls, singing, and genuinely accompanying children. This collaboration with Tencent Cloud and Yancheng AI Core Star Technology Co., Ltd, marks an exciting new journey into ‘IP + AI’.” Looking ahead, even more innovative features, including conversation highlights and memory storage, will be introduced to further enrich meaningful parent-child interactions.

Talking Tom, an internationally renowned IP, has redefined the global landscape for AI toys with the launch of the “AI Tom Bud,” powered by TWeTalk’s global solution. Han Chengyan, Co-founder of Talking Tom’s AI business, commented, “The localized deployment and language technology offered by Tencent Cloud’s TWeTalk global solution were critical to our large-scale launch in the North American market. Our collaboration—from R&D to commercial rollout—was seamless. We are highly optimistic about our ongoing partnership and look forward to expanding the global AI companion market together.”

In the AI headphones sector, Philips AVA-CN has transformed its TAT5599 headphones by *iPhi APP into both a “AI meeting assistant” and a “portable interpreter” by leveraging Tencent Cloud TWeTalk’s text summarization and real-time translation capabilities. Wang Qiang, General Manager of Philips AVA China Region, stated,”The distinction between traditional and AI headphones has been eliminated. Through our strategic collaboration with Tencent Cloud, Philips has redefined the standards for effective communication and productivity—shifting from simple ‘sound transmission’ to truly ‘intelligent communication’.”

In the smart home sector, Kaadas—a long-standing leader in China’s smart lock market, with products sold in 36 countries—has partnered with Tencent Cloud’s TWeSee solution to bring a closed-loop experience to smart locks for the first time, spanning cloud decision-making, edge execution, and user feedback. By leveraging TWeSee’s proprietary vision models for door lock scenarios, security events can be identified, summarized, and alerted with greater accuracy and speed. Intelligent extraction and rapid compilation of event videos reduce users’ abnormal video search time by about 90%, cut average response time for security events to under 500 ms, and extend lock battery life by 30%. This empowers smart locks to truly “see and remember” everything happening at your doorstep.

Gwelltimes, an innovative technology-driven company specializing in integrated smart security solutions, is a leading player in the network camera sector, with products and services spanning more than 200 countries and regions. Its popular Yoosee cameras are deeply integrated with Tencent Cloud’s TWeSee visual intelligence solution—making Gwelltimes the first in the industry to deploy multimodal large models at scale. This advanced solution delivers intelligent event extraction, text summarization, and natural language video search, helping elevate the security industry from a “passive event recorder” to an “intelligent security steward” and establishing a new industry benchmark. Today, Gwelltimes’ IPC products, powered by TWeSee, serve over 130 million Yoosee app users worldwide, making security video more interactive, engaging, and insightful.

Last but not the least, a major Thai enterprise has leveraged Tencent Cloud’s TWeSee visual intelligence solution to rapidly introduce value-added AI features—such as video highlights—to its existing video surveillance platform through lightweight cloud integration in less than three months. By unlocking new business value from its surveillance data, the company has established additional revenue streams. Moving forward, a wider range of TWeSee-powered value-added services will be rolled out, further propelling Thailand’s smart home industry into the AI era.

In summary, AI is reshaping the boundaries of the Internet of Things, driving industries into a new era of innovation and growth. With AIoT 2.0 product solutions, Tencent Cloud remains committed to advancing its technologies and solutions—delivering high-quality, efficient, and cost-effective intelligent services. This empowers industries around the world and helps customers unlock new opportunities for growth.

About Tencent Cloud:

Tencent Cloud, one of the world’s leading cloud companies, is committed to creating innovative solutions to resolve real-world issues and enabling digital transformation for smart industries. Through our extensive global infrastructure, Tencent Cloud provides businesses across the globe with stable and secure industry-leading cloud products and services, leveraging technological advancements such as cloud computing, Big Data analytics, AI, IoT, and network security. It is our constant mission to meet the needs of industries across the board, including the fields of gaming, media and entertainment, finance, healthcare, property, retail, travel, and transportation.

MANILA, Philippines, Aug. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — AC Health, the healthcare arm of Ayala Corporation, has secured a landmark investment from ABC Impact, the Singapore-based impact investor dedicated to Asia and backed by Temasek Trust and Temasek. This strategic investment marks ABC Impact’s entry into the Philippine healthcare sector, expanding its regional footprint.

Under the agreement, ABC Impact will infuse primary capital for a c.16% minority stake in AC Health. The investment will support AC Health’s vision of transforming healthcare for every Filipino by building a seamless, integrated healthcare ecosystem.

The fresh capital will fuel AC Health’s expansion across its core pillars of hospitals, multi-specialty clinics, and retail pharmacies – through a combination of organic initiatives and targeted acquisitions. By 2027, AC Health aims to expand its network to at least 10 hospitals, 300 clinics, and 1,150 pharmacies across the Philippines.

As an impact investor dedicated to Asia, ABC Impact brings regional insights and networks that can support AC Health in tapping into clinical excellence and healthcare innovation across the region. With existing healthcare investments in India, China, and Vietnam, ABC Impact sees opportunities for knowledge-sharing and future collaboration that can complement AC Health’s integrated care model in the Philippines.

“This partnership marks a significant milestone in AC Health’s journey,” said Paolo Borromeo, President and CEO of AC Health. “ABC Impact’s investment reinforces the strength of our integrated model and our commitment to making healthcare more inclusive. This partnership creates valuable opportunities for knowledge exchange, technology transfer, and the adoption of global best practices, further enabling AC Health to raise the bar in care quality, patient safety, and operational efficiency as it moves toward world-class standards.”

“Healthcare is a fundamental human need, and this partnership with Ayala and AC Health reflects our mission to improve lives by advancing access to quality care,” said David Heng, CEO of ABC Impact. “We believe AC Health is well positioned to deliver meaningful social outcomes alongside sustainable growth. Through our regional healthcare experience and impact lens, we aim to support AC Health’s efforts to strengthen systems and serve more communities across the Philippines.”

The partnership brings together AC Health’s integrated delivery network and ABC Impact’s thematic investing experience in inclusive healthcare solutions. The investment also marks ABC Impact’s first direct entry into the Philippine healthcare sector, building on its regional track record of purpose-driven investments. These include Vietnam-based Kim Dental, the country’s largest private dental care network; India-based DCDC Kidney Care, a dialysis provider operating over 200 centers across underserved regions; and HiRo, a clinical research organization supporting mid-sized global pharmaceutical and biotech companies across Asia Pacific and the United States.

This investment also deepens the longstanding relationship between the Ayala Group and the Temasek ecosystem – reinforcing their shared commitment to long-term, values-driven growth.

“We are honored to expand our relationship with Temasek and Temasek Trust, and welcome ABC Impact as a partner in our healthcare journey,” said Fernando Zobel de Ayala, Chairman of AC Health and Board Director of Ayala Corporation. “Together, we look forward to building a more resilient and inclusive health ecosystem for Filipinos.”

BofA Securities acted as the exclusive financial advisor to AC Health in connection with the transaction. Completion of ABC Impact’s investment in AC Health is subject to the satisfaction of closing conditions.

About AC HEALTH

Established in 2015, AC Health has rapidly grown into one of the country’s most dynamic and integrated healthcare networks, driven by its vision to transform health for every Filipino.  

AC Health operates across two core pillars—provider and pharma—creating a seamless healthcare ecosystem that addresses the full continuum of care. Its portfolio includes Healthway Medical Network, a network of multi-specialty clinics, ambulatory centers, and full-service hospitals; Generika Drugstore, the pioneer in generic retail pharmacies; IE Medica and MedEthix, a major pharmaceutical importer and distributor; and St. Joseph Drug, a leading retail pharmacy in North and Central Luzon. Through its pillars of pharma, hospitals, and clinics – AC Health creates a seamless and integrated healthcare ecosystem for the Filipino patient.

Visit our website at https://www.achealth.com.ph and follow us on LinkedIn to learn more about the company.

About ABC Impact

ABC Impact is an Asia-focused impact investment firm dedicated to delivering measurable social and environmental outcomes alongside risk-adjusted financial returns through sustainable growth. With over USD 900 million in assets under management, the firm follows a disciplined, thematic strategy to invest in high-potential businesses addressing Asia’s most pressing challenges. Its portfolio spans climate and water solutions, sustainable food and agriculture, healthcare and education, and financial and digital inclusion. ABC Impact is part of Temasek Trust Asset Management and is backed by Temasek Trust, Temasek, the Asian Development Bank, and other leading institutional investors.

As a signatory to the Principles for Responsible Investment and the Operating Principles for Impact Management, ABC Impact applies a rigorous, evidence-based impact measurement and management framework to ensure effectiveness and accountability. The firm is committed to mobilizing private capital for a more sustainable and inclusive Asia.

Visit https://abcimpact.com.sg and follow us on LinkedIn to learn more.