Tencent releases Hy3 AI model globally through WorkBuddy, free until August 31, enabling practical, trusted, and scalable AI integration for organizations.
Tencent unveiled Hy3 preview, an open-source 295-billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts AI model with only 21 billion active parameters. The model demonstrates dramatic improvements: SWE-bench coding benchmark jumped from 53.0% to 74.4%, Terminal-Bench rose to 54.4%, and BrowseComp reached 67.1%. Priced at $0.18/$0.59 per million input/output tokens, it outperforms Chinese competitors like GLM-5 and Kimi-K2.5 while using a fraction of the compute cost.
Tencent Holdings has released a new flagship artificial intelligence model, the first since former OpenAI researcher Yao Shunyu joined the Chinese tech giant to lead its foundational AI development efforts. The Shenzhen-based company said on Thursday that the closed-source HY3-Preview was its most powerful model yet, on par with leading Chinese models, while still lagging top US models from the likes of OpenAI and Google DeepMind. Notably, the model is relatively small with only 295 billion...
