AI provider / Tencent
Tencent
Tencent's AI provider story now runs through the Hunyuan / Tencent HY family, spanning text, translation, vision, video, 3D and the latest HY3 flagship.
Tencent's AI catalog now looks much broader than the early Hunyuan story. The current Tencent HY docs span turbo and T1 text lines, translation services, vision-video models, open 3D work and the newer HY3 flagship direction.
The practical takeaway is that Tencent is using Hunyuan as a cloud-native model layer rather than a single hero release. It is a stack designed to cover enterprise text workloads, multimodal generation and specialized services inside Tencent Cloud at the same time.
Model catalog
Every release in this provider’s model line.
Each row is a distinct model release — its date, its type and the traits it is known for. Open a source to dig into any of them.
| Model | Released | Type | Key traits | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HY3 | Jul 2026 | Flagship |
| Tencent |
| HY3 Preview | Apr 2026 | Preview |
| Tencent |
| HY Vision 1.5 Instruct | Dec 2025 | Visual |
| Tencent Cloud docs |
| Hunyuan 3D 3.0 / World | Nov 2025 | 3D |
| Tencent |
| Hunyuan Translation | Oct 2025 | Translation |
| Tencent Cloud docs |
| Hunyuan T1 Vision | Sep 2025 | Reasoning |
| Tencent Cloud docs |
| Hunyuan TurboS Vision Video | Jul 2025 | Multimodal |
| Tencent Cloud docs |
| Hunyuan-A13B | Jun 2025 | Model release |
| Tencent Cloud docs |
| Hunyuan Translation Lite | Jun 2025 | Translation |
| Tencent Cloud docs |
| Hunyuan TurboS LongText 128K | Mar 2025 | Long context |
| Tencent Cloud docs |
| Hunyuan T1 | Mar 2025 | Reasoning |
| Tencent Cloud docs |
| Hunyuan TurboS | Mar 2025 | Fast tier |
| Tencent Cloud docs |
| Hunyuan-Large / Standard-256K update | Feb 2025 | Version update |
| Tencent Cloud docs |
Timeline
A practical timeline of model releases and company milestones.
This page tracks the moments that matter most: major model releases, version jumps and company moves that changed how this provider shows up in the AI market.
HY3 officially lands as the newest Tencent top tier.
Tencent positions HY3 around hybrid fast-slow thinking, 256K context and a stronger frontier-style flagship identity.
HY3 enters preview as Tencent's next flagship arc.
The preview signals a shift from broad catalog expansion toward a more explicit frontier model headline.
HY Vision 1.5 Instruct strengthens the visual branch.
By the end of 2025 Tencent has a much clearer multimodal stack, with visual instruction models standing beside text and translation lines.
Hunyuan 3D 3.0 and World push Tencent into 3D generation.
The release widens Tencent's AI story well beyond text and image, showing a serious investment in spatial and asset-generation workflows.
Hunyuan-A13B adds a more deployment-friendly text model tier.
Tencent broadens the Hunyuan family with a more efficient public model option rather than only pushing top-end scale.
Hunyuan T1 gives Tencent a clearer reasoning branch.
The T1 naming separates a thinking-oriented line from the broader Hunyuan text catalog and points toward a more layered stack.