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DeepSeek and Tencent Launch In-House AI Search Engines with Authority Scoring

·2026.10.24 01:16

Key point

DeepSeek charges $0.75 per 1,000 requests for its API, while Tencent claims its engine handles hundreds of millions of daily calls across 157 authoritative sources.

Details

  • DeepSeek and Tencent launched independent AI search engines within days of each other in October, replacing third-party APIs with in-house infrastructure.
  • DeepSeek's API indexes hundreds of billions of pages and assigns an authority tier from 0 to 4 to every result, with reputation carrying over to all pages on a host.
  • Tencent's Yuanbao Search plugs into 157 authoritative sources across 13 industries and claims to handle hundreds of millions of calls per day.
  • The search layer acts as a gatekeeper for AI answers, meaning sites on low-authority hosts may be excluded regardless of content quality.
  • DeepSeek's authority scoring showed limitations in a one-day test, where spam PDFs on a US government site and junk uploads on a Columbia Business School site both received the top tier.
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