Google launches game on Tencent's Wechat as it eyes China market

BEIJING (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google said on Wednesday it has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) game on Tencent Holdings Ltd social media app WeChat, as the company continues to show tentative signs of re-entering China's consumer market. The U.S. technology firm has been experimenting with new inroads to the China, where the majority of it products including its internet search engine, email and app store are blocked by Chinese authorities over censorship concerns. Last year, Google launched its'Google Translate' app in China, and in May it added a file management app to several app stores run by local Chinese firms, a first for the company. The latest product, Caihua Xiaoge, is a drawing game based on Google's AI image recognition technology, and is a WeChat'mini app', which works only within Tencent's WeChat. Several foreign firms, including Starbucks Corp, have also launched mini apps.