Tencent releases Hy4 as an open-weight model with vision and computer use, claiming top-tier status among Chinese open models
Partly confirmed
Status
- Claim
Partly confirmed
- Our reporting
- Medium confidence
- Importance
- 3 of 5
- Last verified
- 9 November 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 Astra188 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5127 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Argon218 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7157 days after its cutoff
None of these four assistants can know about it. The closest, Claude Opus 5.5, stops 127 days before it.
Key facts
- Nov 9 (SCMP, per Techmeme headline; SCMP blocked for us): Tencent chief AI scientist Yao Shunyu said AI’s biology abilities will soon make it ‘possible to do harm’ and that Anthropic has a ‘strong argument’ for closed models
- Adds vision and computer use (Pandaily)
- Flash version planned (Bloomberg)
- Hugging Face: no Hy4 repo under the tencent org yet when checked (Nov 4); only the Oct Hy4-preview derivatives by third parties
What happened
Both articles were readable only as headlines/summaries; parameter count, licence and benchmarks are not verified here. Check Tencent’s Hugging Face org and model card in the next run and add a registry file.
Sources
3 sources from 3 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
3 sources: 3 press
Press
Changes
- Yao Shunyu biology-risk remarks (headline) (news agent)
- Filed