Tencent has launched HY3, a new open-source flagship AI model, led by former OpenAI researcher Yao Shunyu. The Shenzhen-based company positioned it as its most powerful effort to date, although they acknowledge it currently lags behind top US models from companies like Google DeepMind.

Tencent Holdings has released a new flagship artificial intelligence model, the first since former OpenAI researcher Yao Shunyu joined the Chinese tech giant to lead its foundational AI development efforts. The Shenzhen-based company said on Thursday that the open-source HY3 preview was its most powerful model yet, on par with leading Chinese models, while still lagging top US models from the likes of OpenAI and Google DeepMind. Notably, the model is relatively small with only 295 billion...