Tencent targets Southeast Asia as launch pad for AI agent WorkBuddy amid tough local market
Tencent launches WorkBuddy AI agent to Southeast Asia amid domestic competition, targeting regional cloud customers.
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China’s Manus raises over $500M in first funding round since split with Meta
Boyu Capital and IDG Capital led the funding round, and existing shareholders Tencent, HSG (formerly known as Sequoia China), ZhenFund and others also participated.
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Researchers are tracking a Chinese AI ‘agent fleet’
Independent researchers discovered an agent swarm that seems to be running on Tencent's infrastructure and targeting Alibaba's map service, Amap.
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Introducing Hy4 Preview
Tencent releases Hy4, a 770B open-weight LLM with 49B active params and 1M token context, 2.6× larger than Hy3.
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tencent/Hy3
Tencent releases Hy3, a 295B-param MoE model with 21B active params under Apache 2.0, claiming performance parity with 2-5x larger open-source competitors.
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Tencent Hy 30B/7B/1.8B
Tencent releases Hy-MT2 multilingual translation models (1.8B–30B MoE) supporting 33 languages with 1.25-bit quantization.
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DeepSeek Rejects Alibaba: Prioritizing Corporate Independence Over Big Tech Ecosystems
DeepSeek rejected Alibaba investment talks, prioritizing independence and avoiding restrictive ecosystem agreements despite April financing round interest from Tencent.
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Tencent Releases Hy3 preview - Open Source 295B 21B Active MoE
Tencent releases Hy3 preview: 295B MoE model with 21B active parameters on Hugging Face.
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