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  "id": 4099663,
  "title": "China’s Tencent releases new open-source AI model for coding, research tasks",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/29/chinas-tencent-releases-new-open-source-ai-model-for-coding-research",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-29T03:41:31.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Indian Express",
    "slug": "the-indian-express",
    "url": "https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/artificial-intelligence/chinas-tencent-releases-new-open-source-ai-model-for-coding-research-tasks-10854166/"
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  "account": "China's Tencent has unveiled a preview of a new open-source AI model named Hy4 preview, designed for tasks like software engineering, research and financial analysis, according to a Friday announcement on Hugging Face. This model employs a mixture-of-experts design with a total of 770 billion parameters, though only around 49 billion are utilized for each text request. Tencent plans to integrate Hy4 preview with its existing products, including CodeBuddy and WorkBuddy. The company notes that the early-release model may occasionally take longer than expected to process intricate queries and may over-verify its own responses. This release comes as Tencent intensifies its AI investment in a competitive market, recently launching Hunyuan 3.0 in April, marking its first major model since hiring former OpenAI researcher Yao Shunyu to spearhead its AI platform development.",
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        "outlet": "Seeking Alpha News",
        "title": "Tencent unveils new AI model it claims outperforms Z.AI, Moonshot: report",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/tencent-unveils-new-ai-model-it-claims-outperforms-z-ai-moonshot",
        "published": "2026-08-28T08:46:58.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Tencent releases Hy4 Preview, a 770B-parameter foundational model with a 1M context window that it says outperforms Z.AI and Moonshot models in internal tests (Bloomberg)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/tencent-releases-hy4-preview-a-770b-parameter-foundational-model-with",
        "published": "2026-08-28T09:40:07.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Economic Times Tech",
        "title": "China's Tencent releases new open-source AI model for coding, research tasks",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/chinas-tencent-releases-new-open-source-ai-model-for-coding-research",
        "published": "2026-08-28T09:45:36.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Tech in Asia",
        "title": "Tencent unveils AI model it says outperforms Z.ai, Moonshot",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/29/tencent-unveils-ai-model-it-says-outperforms-z-ai-moonshot",
        "published": "2026-08-29T03:11:36.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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