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Tencent ramps up overseas AI push with wider rollout of flagship Hy3 model
Hy3’s release is the first major update in Tencent’s AI strategy since former OpenAI researcher Ya Shunyu joined the Chinese tech giant
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Iris Dengin ShenzhenPublished: 10:58am, 5 Aug 2026Tencent Holdings is ramping up its overseas push for its flagship artificial intelligence (AI) model Hy3, joining a wave of Chinese technology rivals and rising labs taking aim at the world’s leading players.
On Wednesday, the Shenzhen-based technology giant rolled out Hy3 to global developers, enterprises and users through its workplace agentic tool WorkBuddy, creation studio Tencent Design Miora and model platform TokenHub.
On WorkBuddy, Hy3 would be available free of charge to users worldwide until 31 August, according to Tencent.
The move to broaden the international access followed the official launch of the model last month.
Hy3 would enable organisations to “move beyond AI experimentation and put intelligence to work in practical, trusted and scalable ways,” said Poshu Yeung, senior vice-president of Tencent Cloud and head of the unit’s international business.
Though relatively small, Hy3 is Tencent’s most powerful model yet, with 295 billion parameters. The release has been watched closely by the industry as the first major update in Tencent’s AI strategy since former OpenAI researcher Yao Shunyu joined the Chinese technology giant to lead its foundational AI development efforts.
The API call volume for Hy3 had increased more than 68-fold compared with the previous generation, and it had topped the global large language model usage leaderboard on OpenRouter in the first week of its launch, according to the company.
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