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Friday, February 28, 2025February 28, 2025 – Today saw major advancements in AI agent speed and security, with Tencent unveiling its Hunyuan Turbo S model that reportedly responds to queries in under one second – outperforming DeepSeek’s R1 "slow-thinking" models. Meanwhile, Zenity launched its inaugural AI Agent Security Summit, bringing together researchers and CISOs to address vulnerabilities in autonomous AI systems like data leakage risks and prompt injection attacks.
The competitive landscape intensified as Tencent claimed its new model matches DeepSeek-V3’s capabilities in knowledge retention and reasoning while delivering responses 10x faster than previous benchmarks. This comes amid growing enterprise adoption of agentic AI, with Gartner naming it 2025’s top strategic technology trend for creating "virtual workforces". Security remains a critical focus, with Zenity’s summit highlighting new frameworks for governing multi-agent ecosystems that combine third-party apps and autonomous AI tools.