# Tong Taosang (Dowson Tong) (slim)

> Tong Taosang (Dowson Tong) is senior Executive Vice President, Tencent at and President of Cloud and Smart Industries Group. Octop on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Senior Executive Vice President, Tencent, and President of Cloud and Smart Industries Group.

Dowson Tong is a senior executive vice president of Tencent and has led its Cloud and Smart Industries Group, which runs the cloud business and enterprise services, since October 2018. He earlier ran Tencent's Social Network Group, which covered QQ, and before joining Tencent worked on messaging systems at Sendmail and server development at Oracle.

## What Tong builds

- [Octop](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/octop.md), graded D, 52.3/100, in Personal assistants. Octop is a self-hosted assistant with multiple users and agents, a web dashboard, messaging channels and connectors. It can coordinate tasks across local workspaces, browser sessions and configured model providers. Senior Executive Vice President, Tencent, and President of Cloud and Smart Industries Group, researched 2026-10-28.

## Works with

- [Chen Yidan (Charles Chen)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/chen-yidan-charles-chen/), Co-founder and Advisor Emeritus, Tencent
- [jubaoliang](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jubaoliang/), Octop contributor, publishes the FnOS Docker image and the Octop Pet desktop pet
- [Ma Huateng (Pony Ma)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ma-huateng-pony-ma/), Co-founder, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Tencent
- [Xu Chenye (Daniel Xu)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/xu-chenye-daniel-xu/), Co-founder and Chief Information Officer, Tencent
- [Zeng Liqing (Jason Zeng)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/zeng-liqing-jason-zeng/), Co-founder and Advisor Emeritus, Tencent
- [Zhang Zhidong (Tony Zhang)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/zhang-zhidong-tony-zhang/), Co-founder and Advisor Emeritus, Tencent

## Questions

### Who is Tong Taosang (Dowson Tong)?

Dowson Tong is a senior executive vice president of Tencent and has led its Cloud and Smart Industries Group, which runs the cloud business and enterprise services, since October 2018. He earlier ran Tencent's Social Network Group, which covered QQ, and before joining Tencent worked on messaging systems at Sendmail and server development at Oracle.

### What does Tencent Cloud make?

Anchor Terminal lists Octop from Tencent Cloud.

### How are Tong's tools graded?

Octop is graded D, 52.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://github.com/TencentCloud/Octop/commits/main/
- https://github.com/jubaoliang
- https://uk.linkedin.com/company/tencent-cloud
- https://x.com/tencentcloud
- https://github.com/TencentCloud
- https://github.com/TencentCloud/Octop
- https://discord.gg/QnWdhJxq9h
- https://www.tencent.com/who-we-are/our-team/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Huateng
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Yidan

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