Tencent launches Hy4 open-weight LLM with visual reasoning, intensifying China AI race

Tencent released Hy4, its flagship open-weight LLM, adding visual understanding and agentic capabilities for its enterprise ecosystem. This marks Tencent's first multimodal model and intensifies competition with DeepSeek, Z.ai, and Alibaba in China's open-weight AI race. The move signals accelerating commoditization of frontier AI capabilities and potential pricing pressure across the sector.

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