# Bad Influence story: Tencent's Shunyu Yao says AI moats lie in products rather than models

Active · 1 article · 1 source · First reported 11-08 07:15. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/bd5299ab-5aa8-46b0-b78f-cf76e9e3c720

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Latest update (11-08 07:15): Tencent's Shunyu Yao says AI moats lie in products, not models

Overview: Tencent chief AI scientist Shunyu Yao says AI companies' competitive moats lie more in products than in models. At the 2026 Future Science Prize event, he argued that an AI product that knows a user's schedule, relationships and activities, as WeChat could, is hard to replace even if a rival model is smarter. Yao made the remarks in response to Zhang Yaqin, who asked what moats model companies have.

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1. 11-08 07:15 · IThome · AI · [Tencent's Shunyu Yao says AI moats lie in products, not models](https://badinfluence.news/items/ksdatfnc4cadzc8y09y0ss6dw)
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