WeChat owner, Tencent, developed the Hunyuan AI model to support a variety of tasks such as image creation, copywriting, text recognition, and customer service.
Heaptalk, Jakarta — China’s tech giant Tencent officially released an artificial intelligence model called Hunyuan (09/07). The AI model has more than 100 billion parameters with two trillion tokens in pre-training data.
Hunyuan can support a variety of tasks such as image creation, copywriting, text recognition, and customer service. These capabilities are expected to play an essential role in many industrial sectors, including finance, public services, social media, e-commerce, transportation, and games.
Additionally, the owner of WeChat claimed the AI model has strong Chinese processing capabilities, advanced logical reasoning, and reliable task execution. “In launching Hunyuan and making it available to domestic enterprises, Tencent has opted for an approach that balances the exciting performance of consumer-facing, large-model AI-powered chatbots, with the pragmatic need for the business community to increase operational efficiencies, reduce costs, protect privacy as well as proprietary data,” said Senior Executive Vice President of Tencent and CEO of Tencent Cloud and Smart Industries Group (CSIG) Dowson Tong at the Global Digital Ecosystem Summit (09/07).
Hunyuan is connected to 50 Tencent products
This large language model can be freely accessed by enterprises in China through Tencent’s public cloud platform to be further customized to their specific needs. This allows enterprises to build tools and train their own large models derived from Tencent’s Model-as-a-Service (MaaS). Launching in June 2023, the MaaS offers industry-specific large models with more than 50 services covering 20 major industries.
With Hunyuan, enterprises can enhance their large models to create intelligent services across their operations. Apart from that, Hunyuan has also been connected to 50 Tencent products, such as Cloud, Marketing Solutions, Games, fintech services, Meeting, Docs, Weixin Search, and QQ Browser.
According to Vice President of Tencent, Jie Jiang, the company has entered the era of the comprehensive embrace of large models, with Tencent having evolved over the years from model algorithms to machine learning frameworks and now, to AI infrastructure.
Tencent is among the four largest technology companies in China alongside Baidu, Alibaba, and Xiaomi collectively known as BATX. The company has run its international business in the global cloud computing market, which includes Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Currently, Tencent Cloud has data center facilities in 26 geographic regions on five continents with 70 availability zones as well as an exabyte-level storage capacity.
