{"id":413201,"date":"2026-04-23T09:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413201\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:27:08","slug":"tencent-unveils-first-flagship-ai-model-with-former-openai-researcher-at-helm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413201\/","title":{"rendered":"Tencent unveils first flagship AI model with former OpenAI researcher at helm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tencent Holdings has released a new flagship artificial intelligence model, the first since former OpenAI researcher <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3336811\/tencent-restructures-ai-operations-promotes-high-profile-recruit-chief-ai-scientist?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yao Shunyu joined the Chinese tech giant<\/a> to lead its foundational AI development efforts.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Shenzhen-based company said on Thursday that the new model, an open-source program called \u201cHy3 preview\u201d, was its most powerful yet, on par with top Chinese models but still lagging flagship products from US leaders such as OpenAI and Google DeepMind.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Notably, the model is relatively small with only 295 billion parameters, bucking a recent trend of large models with trillions of parameters \u2013 the mathematical variables that encode a model\u2019s \u201cintelligence\u201d, which are roughly proportional to the amount of computational power needed to train and serve the model.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The company\u2019s previous flagship model, the HY 2.0 released in early December, had over 400 billion parameters.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The new model was developed to cater for real-world business scenarios, the company said, highlighting the collaboration between Tencent\u2019s foundational model development team Hunyuan and its Yuanbao AI application team.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cBy seamlessly aligning product-side requirements with underlying technology, we have successfully bridged the gap between model capability and user value,\u201d it said, adding that the model was already deployed in Tencent\u2019s flagship AI products including consumer app Yuanbao and coding assistant CodeBuddy.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Agentic capabilities were \u201cone of the most significantly improved areas in this release\u201d, with the company pointing to strong performance on several in-house benchmarks it had developed to assess compatibility with popular agentic AI tool OpenClaw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tencent Holdings has released a new flagship artificial intelligence model, the first since former OpenAI researcher Yao 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