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Tencent Launches Upgraded Hy4 AI Model With Visual Understanding

Published: Nov. 5, 2026 12:00 a.m. GMT+8

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Tencent’s Hunyuan team officially launched its next-generation large language model, Hy4, on Nov. 4. Photo: Tencent

Tencent Holdings Ltd. launched its latest large language model, Hunyuan Hy4 on Wednesday, adding visual understanding and the ability to operate computers as it seeks to narrow the gap with leading artificial intelligence developers.

The release underscores Tencent’s push to embed advanced AI in enterprise software and turn technical improvements into commercial value, amid intense competition and rapid product updates from U.S. rivals.

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Tencent launched Hunyuan Hy4, an open-source LLM with 770B parameters (up from <300B), featuring visual understanding and computer-use abilities.
Hy4 cut hallucination to 7.2% (from 12.95%) and guessing errors to 5.6% (from 23.1%); priced at 6 yuan per million input tokens.
Chinese models held top four OpenRouter token rankings for Nov. 4 week; Tencent shares closed up 1.1%.

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Wednesday, November 5, 2026：: Tencent launched Hunyuan Hy4, its latest large language model, adding visual understanding and computer operation capabilities.

Wednesday, November 5, 2026：: Tencent's Hong Kong-listed shares closed up 1.1% at HK$401.6, with a market capitalization of about HK$3.65 trillion.

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