Hy4 preview

Model Introduction

Hy4 preview is a new-generation Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) flagship model developed by the Tencent Hy Team. The model comprises 770B total parameters, of which 49B are activated per token. The backbone consists of 78 layers, where the first layer uses a standard dense FFN and the remaining 77 layers replace it with MoE, each containing 256 routed experts and 1 shared expert; every token activates the top-8 routed experts along with the shared expert. In addition to the backbone, 1 native MTP layer (10B total parameters, 0.7B activated) is built in for speculative decoding.

On the architecture side, inspired by DeepSeek and GLM, the attention module employs Gated DeepSeek Sparse Attention (Gated DSA) with IndexCache for cross-layer sparse index reuse. The residual pathway uses iHC (identity Hyper-Connections) to expand inter-layer information flow.

Model Specifications

The table below lists backbone parameters only, excluding the MTP layer.

Property	Value
Architecture	Mixture-of-Experts (MoE)
Total Parameters	770B
Activated Parameters	49B
Layers	78
Hidden Size	6144
Attention Type	Gated DSA
Attention Heads	64
Query Compression Dimension	2048
Key-Value Compression Dimension	512
Indexer Heads / Head Dimension	32 / 128
Indexer top-k	2048
Residual Streams	4
Routed Experts	256
Shared Experts	1
Activated Routed Experts per Token	8
MoE Intermediate Size	2048
FFN Intermediate Size	18432
Context Length	1M
Vocabulary Size	120832

A New Flagship Generation

We scaled Hy4 preview on three fronts: model size, context length, and training data. Stronger pre-training and a substantially larger post-training run compound into another step change in capability — the largest generation-over-generation gain we've measured, and enough to put Hy4 preview at the open-source frontier.

Built for Productivity

We partnered with top experts inside Tencent — such as software engineers, game developers, finance analysts, and security experts — and built training data around the work they ship. The result is a model that gets meaningfully further on the tasks these teams run every day:

Software engineering: Better at understanding, planning, debugging, and verifying long-horizon development tasks, with further gains in the visual taste and interaction quality of front-end work.

Office and analysis: Takes messy context spread across many files and converts it into shareable artifacts — documents, spreadsheets, and presentations — handling data analysis, equations, and financial models with greater precision.

Game development: Turns a single prompt into a playable prototype and works fluently with game engines, so developers can keep refining complex projects over multiple turns.

Scientific research: Stronger understanding, reasoning, and problem-solving on hard research questions, with solid progress across AI research, molecular dynamics, condensed matter physics, and pure mathematics.

We also continue to co-design Hy4 preview with Tencent products like CodeBuddy and WorkBuddy, so that gains in the model show up in the work people actually do with it. To check that, we ran a blind side-by-side evaluation: 163 internal experts rated model outputs on 203 engineering tasks. Hy4 preview came out slightly ahead of both GLM 5.3 (2.99 vs. 2.92 average, 46.8% wins / 12.8% ties / 40.4% losses) and Kimi K3 (2.99 vs. 2.94, 51.2% wins / 7.9% ties / 40.9% losses).

Benchmark Appendix

Known Limitations

This is an early version of Hy4. There is real headroom left in both pre-training and post-training, and we are shipping with known issues — among them, spending longer than necessary reasoning through complex tasks, and a tendency to over-verify its own work. We'll keep iterating quickly on these. As with Hy3 preview, we would rather ship early and hear what breaks — that's what made Hy3 substantially better, and it's how we will get Hy4 right. We will also keep collaborating closely with Tencent's products and in-house experts to push the boundaries of model intelligence while making it more abundant and affordable.

License

Hy4 preview is released under the Apache License 2.0. See LICENSE for details.