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Tencent previews Hy4 LLM with 1M context window and 770B parameters

Tencent has released a preview of its new open-weight language model, Hy4. This model boasts 770 billion total parameters and 49 billion active parameters, a significant increase from its predecessor, Hy3. Hy4 also features a 1 million token context window and supports two reasoning effort levels: 'high' and 'no_think'. Early testing with a prompt for an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle revealed interesting reasoning traces, with the model considering and discarding options like helmets and sunglasses. AI

IMPACT Sets a new benchmark for parameter count and context window in open-weight models, potentially driving competition in large-scale LLM development.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Tencent previews Hy4 LLM with 1M context window and 770B parameters

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  1. Simon Willison TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Introducing Hy4 Preview

    <p><strong><a href="https://hy.tencent.ai/research/hy4-preview">Introducing Hy4 Preview</a></strong></p> New open weight text input (no vision) LLM from Chinese company Tencent today: 770B total parameters, 49B active parameters, 1M token context window.</p> <p>This is a big size…