Tencent widens access to new AI model

Tencent announced on Wednesday that it was broadening international access to its new Hy3 artificial intelligence model.

Users can access Hy3 through WorkBuddy, where it is available free of charge to users worldwide until the end of August.

Building on strong early momentum since its release on July 6, Hy3 continues to expand across global third-party developer platforms, including Hermes, Kilo, Cline, OpenClaw, OpenCode and Cherry Studio. It has also been available from day one on open-source model communities including Hugging Face and ModelScope.

Hy3 has 295 billion total parameters and 21 billion active parameters and supports a context length of up to 256K. It performs comparably to flagship models with two to five times as many parameters across reasoning, instruction understanding, in-context learning, code generation and agent capabilities, the company said.

Hy3 recorded more than 68 times as many API calls as its previous-generation model and ranked first globally on OpenRouter's global LLM usage leaderboard within one week of launch.

Poshu Yeung, senior vice-president of Tencent Cloud and head of Tencent Cloud International, said:"Hy3 marks a significant step in how Tencent Cloud International is helping organizations move beyond AI experimentation and put intelligence to work in practical, trusted and scalable ways."

"By connecting advanced models with real-world scenarios, enterprise-grade engineering, flexible model orchestration and secure infrastructure, we aim to give enterprises the control and reliability they need to move from pilots to scaled deployments," Yeung said.