China’s Tencent releases new open-source AI model for coding, research tasks

Tencent released a preview version of a new open-source AI model aimed at tasks such as software engineering, research and financial analysis, according to its post published ‌on Friday ⁠on ⁠Hugging Face, a repository of open-source AI models.

The model, called Hy4 preview, uses a “mixture-of-experts” ​design with 770 billion parameters in total, Tencent said, although only about ​49 billion are used ⁠for any ‌given text request.

The ​Chinese ​technology giant said it plans ⁠to integrate the model alongside Tencent ​products, including CodeBuddy and WorkBuddy.