Tencent Holdings has released a new flagship artificial intelligence model, the first since former OpenAI researcher Yao Shunyu joined the Chinese tech giant to lead its foundational AI development efforts.
The Shenzhen-based company said on Thursday that the new model, an open-source program called “Hy3 preview”, was its most powerful yet, on par with top Chinese models but still lagging flagship products from US leaders such as OpenAI and Google DeepMind. Notably, the model is relatively small with only 295 billion parameters, bucking a recent trend of large models with trillions of parameters – the mathematical variables that encode a model’s “intelligence”, which are roughly proportional to the amount of computational power needed to train and serve the model.

Full report : Tencent releases Hy3-preview, its first AI model developed under former OpenAI researcher Yao Shunyu; the model features 295 billion parameters, down from HY2’s 400 billion.