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# Tencent's Apache-licensed Hy3 takes on GLM-5.2 at half the size — and wins everywhere except coding

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**Published:** July 6, 2026  
**Original:** https://venturebeat.com/technology/tencents-apache-licensed-hy3-takes-on-glm-5-2-at-half-the-size-and-wins-everywhere-except-coding  

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- [Overview](#overview)

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## Overview

For the past year, the awkward secret of the open-weight model boom has been that many of the strongest Chinese releases were off-limits to a large slice of the enterprises most interested in them. License terms that excluded the European Union, the United Kingdom and South Korea meant legal teams killed deployments before engineering teams finished their evals — not just for companies headquartered there, but for any enterprise serving traffic into those regions. For IT teams weighing open mode

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