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Tencent launches Hy4 multimodal model with vision and computer-use capabilities

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Tencent released Hy4 on November 4, 2026, a 770-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model (about 49 billion activated per query) that adds visual understanding and computer use, with API promo pricing of $0.417/$1.251 per million tokens and open-source weights pending.

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Timeline · 14 reports

  1. 2026-11-07 03:55 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Tencent Hy4: A Developer's Guide to the 770B Model
  2. 2026-11-06 06:29 · DigiTimes Asia
    Tencent launches Hy4 model to boost visual reasoning, AI safety
  3. 2026-11-05 20:21 · Hacker News Front Page
    Tencent Launches Hy4, One of the Leading Open-Source AI Models
  4. 2026-11-05 16:06 · The Decoder
    Tencent releases Hy4 with vision and computer use, claims second place among Chinese AI models
  5. 2026-11-05 04:28 · DEV Community — AI
    Tencent Hy4 for Developers: How to Evaluate a Computer-Use Model Before You Trust It With a Mouse
  6. 2026-11-04 18:01 · DEV Community — AI
    Tencent launches Hy4 with visual understanding and computer-use features
  7. 2026-11-04 16:05 · SiliconANGLE AI
    Tencent releases Hy4, a powerful frontier AI model introducing visual understanding and computer use
  8. 2026-11-04 14:18 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Tencent Hy4: Vision + Computer-Use API Today, $0.417/$1.251 Promo, 1M vs 65K Max-Out, Weights Pending
  9. 2026-11-04 12:33 · r/artificial
    Hy4 adds vision and computer use. How reliable will it be on long tasks?
  10. 2026-11-04 11:18 · Unite.AI
    Tencent Releases Full Hy4 Model With Vision and Computer Use
  11. 2026-11-04 10:55 · Techmeme
    Tencent releases its Hy4 open-weight foundation model, which it says joins the top tier of Chinese open-weight AI for the first time, and plans a Flash version (Bloomberg)
  12. 2026-11-04 09:15 · TechNode
    Tencent launches Hy4 with vision and computer-use capabilities
  13. 2026-11-04 07:01 · South China Morning Post Tech
    Tencent launches Hy4 in bid to break into AI’s top tier of open-weight models
  14. 2026-11-04 07:01 · SCMP China Tech
    Tencent unveils Hy4 as open-weight AI race with DeepSeek, Z.ai, Alibaba heats up

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