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Tencent Hy (Hunyuan)

Tencent's Hy models; Hy4 adds vision and computer use.

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What Tencent Hy (Hunyuan) does

Tencent's Hy (formerly Hunyuan) model family. Hy4 (4 Nov 2026) is its flagship model, with vision and computer use across command-line and desktop apps for the first time, aimed at frontend and game development, finance and office work, research and long-running assistant tasks. Available through Tencent Cloud, OpenRouter and Tencent apps (CodeBuddy, WorkBuddy, Yuanbao, ima). Open weights are promised but not yet out.

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    Honest take

    No red flags in our notes so far

    We have not written a detailed take on this tool yet. The summary above is based on the maker’s own website.

    Pricing

    Not publicly listed.

    Prices as listed by the maker when we last checked (2026-11-04); usually in US dollars. Check the website for current prices.

    Latest update

    • : Hy4 released, Tencent's first model with vision and computer use (trained on Blender and CAD work). Tencent's examples include a walkable 3D model of a campus in one HTML file, a Tesla valuation spreadsheet with a matching report, and a daily to-do board built from chats, email and calendar. API price $0.834 per million input tokens and $2.501 per million output on Tencent Cloud and OpenRouter; open weights coming soon. Benchmarks and rankings are Tencent's own.

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