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Hy4

LLMs tencent Text gen 2 builds Open weights 2k dl/mo

Hy4 is an open-weight language model from tencent. Hy4-preview-FP8 (FP8) weighs 814 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is 8× H200 141 GB.

  • Hy4 is a Mixture-of-Experts text-generation model developed by Tencent.
  • It features a 1M token context length and is designed for software engineering, office analysis, and scientific research tasks.
  • The model is released under the Apache 2.0 license.

Summary of the tencent/Hy4-preview model card, 2026-10-01. The estimate below is for another build of the family.

What it is

Released bytencent
Released2026-08-27
Parameters780.0B
VRAM814 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for Hy4-preview-FP8 (FP8)

814 GBweights, file size
100 MBcache per 1K tokens
2.2 GBruntime overhead, at least
1,048,576 tokenscontext max
CardRequests at onceContext maxMemory
8K each32K each
RTX 3060 12 GB … 8× A100 80 GB
14 smaller cards
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8× H200 141 GB
tensor parallel
317251K138 GB a card
8× B200 180 GB
tensor parallel
7017561K176 GB a card
Memory needed at each load
Requests at once8K tokens each32K tokens each
1817 GB819 GB
5820 GB832 GB
8822 GB842 GB
16829 GB868 GB
32842 GB921 GB
64868 GB1026 GB

One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.

Builds

Sizes, precisions & builds

BuildParamsPrecisionWeightsSmallest setup
Hy4-preview ↗ 780.0BBF16 1560 GBnone of the reference configurations
Hy4-preview-FP8 (above) ↗ 803.5BFP8 814 GB8× H200 141 GB

From the model card

What tencent says about Hy4

Read the model card

           

🖥️ Official Website  |  
💬 GitHub

Table of Contents


Model Introduction

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.

Model Specifications

The table below lists backbone parameters only, excluding the MTP layer.

PropertyValue
ArchitectureMixture-of-Experts (MoE)
Total Parameters770B
Activated Parameters49B
Layers78
Hidden Size6144
Attention TypeGated DSA
Attention Heads64
Query Compression Dimension2048
Key-Value Compression Dimension512
Indexer Heads / Head Dimension32 / 128
Indexer top-k2048
Residual Streams4
Routed Experts256
Shared Experts1
Activated Routed Experts per Token8
MoE Intermediate Size2048
FFN Intermediate Size18432
Context Length1M
Vocabulary Size120832

A New Flagship Generation

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.

Built for Productivity

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).

Benchmark Appendix

Known Limitations

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.

News

Model Links

Model NameDescriptionHugging FaceModelScopeGitCodeCNB
Hy4 previewInstruct model🤗 ModelModelModelModel
Hy4

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

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