Summary
Hy4 preview has 770 billion total parameters and approximately 49 billion active parameters per request, according to Tencent. The model is open-sourced and available through Tencent products and APIs, although Tencent cautions that the early release may over-verify answers and take longer on complex tasks.
Why it matters
The release adds another major Chinese open model to the high-end competition in long-context reasoning and production-oriented AI systems.
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