In the long-distance race of AI, Tencent is accelerating with unprecedented intensity. According to the latest news, during the earnings call on the afternoon of March 18, Tencent officially revealed that its new HY3.0 (Huayuan 3.0) large model has entered the internal business testing phase and is planned to be officially released in April this year. Compared to the Hyuanyuan 2.0 released at the end of last year, which used a MoE architecture, the 3.0 version is defined as a "major upgrade," with significant improvements in reasoning capabilities and agent collaboration.
The confidence of Tencent's "latecomer leading the way" largely comes from the major restructuring of its research team:
Brilliant scientists joining: At the end of last year, 27-year-old Tsinghua University YAO班 genius and former OpenAI researcher Yao Shunyu officially became Tencent's Chief AI Scientist. His joining was seen by the outside world as an important signal for Tencent to restructure its R&D team and introduce top-tier big model cognition.
Co-design collaboration: With the team reorganization, Tencent is accelerating the deep integration between the Huayuan Large Model and its AI assistant Yuanbao, striving to achieve breakthroughs in the underlying design of the model.
In terms of applications, Tencent is launching a powerful "Lobster Revolution." Recently, Tencent has launched multiple intelligent agent products, including QClaw (Tencent Lobster) and WorkBuddy. On March 11, Ma Huateng even publicly supported the "Lobster Matrix" on his WeChat Moments, introducing all-round forms such as self-developed lobsters, local lobsters, cloud lobsters, and enterprise lobsters.
依托 WeChat and QQ, this national-level social media entry, Tencent is trying to build an omnipresent OpenClaw ecosystem. When the powerful reasoning of large models combines with the convenient access of social software, will Tencent's "Lobster Army" reshape the interaction standards of the AI era? The answer will be revealed in April.
