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# Tencent releases Hy3, a 295B-parameter model that it says is competitive with GLM-5.1 and 5.2, under the Apache 2.0 license, following a preview launch in April (Sam Witteveen/VentureBeat)

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**Published:** July 6, 2026  
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## Overview

Sam Witteveen / VentureBeat: Tencent releases Hy3, a 295B-parameter model that it says is competitive with GLM-5.1 and 5.2, under the Apache 2.0 license, following a preview launch in April &mdash; For the past year, the awkward secret of the open-weight model boom has been that many of the strongest Chinese releases &hellip;

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