Model reference · open weights
Hy4 is an open-weight language model from tencent. Hy4-preview (BF16) weighs 1560 GB; it needs more than the reference configurations below.
Summary of the tencent/Hy4-preview model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | tencent |
|---|---|
| Released | 2026-08-27 |
| Parameters | 780.0B |
| VRAM | 1560 GB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | Requests at once | Context max | Memory | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8K each | 32K each | |||
| RTX 3060 12 GB … 8× B200 180 GB 16 smaller cards | — | — | — | |
| Requests at once | 8K tokens each | 32K tokens each |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1563 GB | 1565 GB |
| 5 | 1566 GB | 1579 GB |
| 8 | 1569 GB | 1588 GB |
| 16 | 1575 GB | 1615 GB |
| 32 | 1588 GB | 1667 GB |
| 64 | 1615 GB | 1772 GB |
One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.
Builds
| Build | Params | Precision | Weights | Smallest setup |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hy4-preview (above) ↗ | 780.0B | BF16 | 1560 GB | none of the reference configurations |
| Hy4-preview-FP8 ↗ | 803.5B | FP8 | 814 GB | 8× H200 141 GB |
From the model card
🖥️ Official Website |
💬 GitHub
Hy4 preview is a new-generation Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) flagship model developed by the Tencent Hy Team. The model comprises 770B total parameters, of which 49B are activated per token. The backbone consists of 78 layers, where the first layer uses a standard dense FFN and the remaining 77 layers replace it with MoE, each containing 256 routed experts and 1 shared expert; every token activates the top-8 routed experts along with the shared expert. In addition to the backbone, 1 native MTP layer (10B total parameters, 0.7B activated) is built in for speculative decoding.
On the architecture side, inspired by DeepSeek and GLM, the attention module employs Gated DeepSeek Sparse Attention (Gated DSA) with IndexCache for cross-layer sparse index reuse. The residual pathway uses iHC (identity Hyper-Connections) to expand inter-layer information flow.
The table below lists backbone parameters only, excluding the MTP layer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Architecture | Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) |
| Total Parameters | 770B |
| Activated Parameters | 49B |
| Layers | 78 |
| Hidden Size | 6144 |
| Attention Type | Gated DSA |
| Attention Heads | 64 |
| Query Compression Dimension | 2048 |
| Key-Value Compression Dimension | 512 |
| Indexer Heads / Head Dimension | 32 / 128 |
| Indexer top-k | 2048 |
| Residual Streams | 4 |
| Routed Experts | 256 |
| Shared Experts | 1 |
| Activated Routed Experts per Token | 8 |
| MoE Intermediate Size | 2048 |
| FFN Intermediate Size | 18432 |
| Context Length | 1M |
| Vocabulary Size | 120832 |
We scaled Hy4 preview on three fronts: model size, context length, and training data. Stronger pre-training and a substantially larger post-training run compound into another step change in capability — the largest generation-over-generation gain we've measured, and enough to put Hy4 preview at the open-source frontier.
We partnered with top experts inside Tencent — such as software engineers, game developers, finance analysts, and security experts — and built training data around the work they ship. The result is a model that gets meaningfully further on the tasks these teams run every day:
Software engineering: Better at understanding, planning, debugging, and verifying long-horizon development tasks, with further gains in the visual taste and interaction quality of front-end work.
Office and analysis: Takes messy context spread across many files and converts it into shareable artifacts — documents, spreadsheets, and presentations — handling data analysis, equations, and financial models with greater precision.
Game development: Turns a single prompt into a playable prototype and works fluently with game engines, so developers can keep refining complex projects over multiple turns.
Scientific research: Stronger understanding, reasoning, and problem-solving on hard research questions, with solid progress across AI research, molecular dynamics, condensed matter physics, and pure mathematics.
We also continue to co-design Hy4 preview with Tencent products like CodeBuddy and WorkBuddy, so that gains in the model show up in the work people actually do with it. To check that, we ran a blind side-by-side evaluation: 163 internal experts rated model outputs on 203 engineering tasks. Hy4 preview came out slightly ahead of both GLM 5.3 (2.99 vs. 2.92 average, 46.8% wins / 12.8% ties / 40.4% losses) and Kimi K3 (2.99 vs. 2.94, 51.2% wins / 7.9% ties / 40.9% losses).
This is an early version of Hy4. There is real headroom left in both pre-training and post-training, and we are shipping with known issues — among them, spending longer than necessary reasoning through complex tasks, and a tendency to over-verify its own work. We'll keep iterating quickly on these. As with Hy3 preview, we would rather ship early and hear what breaks — that's what made Hy3 substantially better, and it's how we will get Hy4 right. We will also keep collaborating closely with Tencent's products and in-house experts to push the boundaries of model intelligence while making it more abundant and affordable.
| Model Name | Description | Hugging Face | ModelScope | GitCode | CNB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hy4 preview | Instruct model | 🤗 Model | Model | Model | Model |
| Hy4 |
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.