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Introducing Hy4 Preview

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Simon Willison introduces Hy4 Preview, a new large language model from Tencent featuring 770 B total parameters, 49 B active parameters, a 1 M token context window, and 1.56 TB of storage on Hugging Face. The release marks a significant increase over Hy3, which had 295 B total parameters, 21 B active parameters, a 256 k token context window, and 598 GB of storage. Willison also shares the model’s chat template, highlighting two reasoning effort levels—‘high’ (default) and ‘no_think’—and demonstrates a sample prompt that showcases the model’s reasoning trace. whyItMatters":"The article provides concrete details on Hy4’s scale and configuration, illustrating Tencent’s advancement in large‑language‑model capabilities and offering practical insights into its usage through the chat template and reasoning settings."

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