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Tencent releases Hy4 preview, a 770-billion-parameter open model

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Tencent released Hy4 preview under the Apache 2.0 licence, a new flagship mixture-of-experts model with 770 billion parameters, 49 billion active per token, 256 routed experts and a built-in multi-token prediction layer for faster decoding.

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Tencent’s second open flagship in four months kept China’s largest internet groups competing in open models.

When
28 Aug 2026
ID
WTA-N-2026-0233
Where
China
Who
Tencent

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Hugging Face. Checked against the source on 10 Oct 2026.

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2026-0233: “Tencent releases Hy4 preview, a 770-billion-parameter open model.” wheresthe.ai, 28 Aug 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/cn-tencent-hy4-preview-2026-08/ (source: Hugging Face: tencent/Hy4-preview).

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