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Chinese AI models from Tencent, Xiaomi, DeepSeek, MiniMax and Z.ai now occupy the top five positions by weekly token usage on OpenRouter, a major AI marketplace. The shift threatens to commoditize premium models from OpenAI and Anthropic as businesses reserve expensive frontier systems for only their hardest problems.

Tencent has released Hy3, a 295-billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 21 billion active parameters and 3.8 billion MTP layer parameters. The model features a 256K context window and is released under Apache 2.0 license, with pricing not yet disclosed.

Tencent is testing an AI assistant called Xiaowei in Weixin, the Chinese version of WeChat, which has over 1.4 billion monthly active users combined with WeChat. Users can interact with Xiaowei through text or voice, communicate with friends, and launch mini-programs within the app.

Tencent released Hy-MT2, a family of multilingual translation models available in 1.8B, 7B, and 30B-A3B (MoE) sizes. All models support translation among 33 languages and follow translation instructions in multiple languages. The 1.8B model can be compressed to 440MB using 1.25-bit AngelSlim quantization.

DeepSeek has released two new models in its V4 series: DeepSeek-V4-Flash and DeepSeek-V4-Pro, both now available on Hugging Face. Separately, Tencent has shipped Hy3-Preview, marking simultaneous releases from two major Chinese AI labs.

Tencent has released Hy3-preview, a 295-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 21 billion active parameters and a 256K context window. The model scores 76.28% on MATH and 34.86% on LiveCodeBench-v6, with particularly strong performance on coding agent tasks.

Tencent has released Hy3 Preview, a Mixture-of-Experts model offering 262,144 token context window and three configurable reasoning modes (disabled, low, high) for production agentic workflows. The model is available for free through OpenRouter.