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Introducing Hy4 Preview

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On Saturday, Simon Willison's Weblog reports that Tencent has released Hy4 Preview, a new open-weight language model. The model boasts seven hundred seventy billion total parameters, forty-nine billion active, and a one million token context window — a major step up from the previous Hy3, which had two hundred ninety-five billion parameters. Willison tested the model's reasoning, which offers just two settings, high and no-think, and found its hidden reasoning trace uses truncated English. The model is available on Hugging Face, taking up one point five six terabytes.

Source: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/29/hy4/

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