HK Stock Market Move | TONGCHENGTRAVEL (00780) surges more than 8% in early trading. Tongcheng Heart Big Model will be integrated into DeepSeek, and is expected to officially open to users in early March.

TONGCHENGTRAVEL(00780) rose more than 8% in early trading, as of the time of writing, it had risen by 7.71% to HK$19.28, with a turnover of HK$2.38 billion. On the news front, on February 28, TONGCHENGTRAVEL announced that TONGCHENGTRAVEL's in-house developed travel industry exclusive model Tongcheng Chengxin will be fully integrated into DeepSeek, becoming the first OTA platform to integrate the DeepSeek large model. Tongcheng Chengxin will work closely with DeepSeek in the future to provide users with professional and intelligent travel solutions. The feature is currently in the internal testing phase and is expected to be formally open to users in early March. It is reported that Tongcheng Chengxin AI can provide users with travel planning, travel guides, hotel, attractions tickets, transportation, and other travel-related consultation recommendations and booking capabilities, helping users to achieve a one-stop experience from information consultation, resource retrieval, decision analysis to product booking. After integrating DeepSeek, Tongcheng Chengxin AI will provide users with more refined and intelligent decision-making services based on DeepSeek's powerful reasoning capabilities. The platform of TONGCHENGTRAVEL aggregating a full range of cultural and tourism consumption resources and massive user data will become an important support for the effective application of travel scenarios. TONGCHENGTRAVEL CMO Bai Zhiwei introduced that in actual application, travel industry large models face challenges such as demand fuzzification and service long-tails. Tongcheng Chengxin relies on the platform's billions of user behavior data and all-category cultural and tourism resources to complete vertical training, creating a shortcut for users' personalized intent and platform cultural and tourism resources. DeepSeek, with its powerful reasoning abilities, achieves high-precision answer generation. The combination of the two is expected to break through the ceiling of traditional travel consumption recommendation accuracy.