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Hy4 preview

A next-generation productivity model with significantly enhanced Agent and complex task execution capabilities.

Technical Architecture & Execution Specifications
Architecture Overview

Hy4 preview

A next-generation productivity model with significantly enhanced Agent and complex task execution capabilities.

Supported Modalities
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Hardware & Execution ParametersReasoning

Total Parameter CountOpen Weights
Active Parameters (MoE)Dense Architecture
Context Window Capacity1,024,000 tokens
Model Weights FootprintCloud Hosted API
Distribution LicenseOpen Weights (Open)
Standard API Pricing (1M Tokens)Free / Self-Hosted
Model Heritage & Evolutionary Lineage
Hunyuan v4

Genealogical Graph & Evolutionary Provenance

Tracing foundational base architecture ancestry, architectural successors, scale siblings, and reasoning distillation derivatives.

Active SelectionAug 2026
Hy4 preview
Open Weights1,024,000 CtxCurrent Spec
Evolutionary Successor
Latest Generation Checkpoint
AI Model Architecture & Intelligence

Architecture Engineering & Capability Deep-Dive

An objective architectural evaluation of Hy4 preview by Tencent, analyzing underlying compute dynamics, memory constraints, and deployment economics.

Topology & Attention Mechanics

A robust autoregressive transformer utilizing standard attention patterns for predictable and coherent token generation.

Architecture Type:Advanced Transformer

Evaluation Profile & Reasoning

Exhibits frontier-tier behavior in reasoning and coding.

Domain Specialty:Reasoning

LLM Hardware Sizing & Serving

For open deployments via vLLM/SGLang, quantization (INT4/AWQ) is heavily recommended to fit dense memory constraints, or multi-GPU pipeline parallelism for full FP16.

KV Cache Mgmt: PagedAttention / FlashAttention-3
Hosting Type:Open Weights (Open)

Inference Economics & Workflows

Well-suited for enterprise pipelines where capability is balanced against per-million token costs.

Enterprise Fit:Production Ready
Production Trade-Offs & Capability Balance

Architectural Strengths vs. Considerations

An objective balance sheet analyzing the operational advantages and production constraints of deploying Hy4 preview.

Key Architectural Strengths

  • Massive 1,024,000-token context allows full-repository and book-length ingestion.

Operational Considerations

  • 128k+ token prefill stages become heavily compute-bound and balloon KV cache without PagedAttention chunking.
LLM Hardware Sizing & Runtime Compatibility

Inference Runtimes & Hardware Sizing

Deployment targets, inference engines, and memory requirements for Hy4 preview.

Recommended Hardware Profile:
1x RTX 4070 / 4080 (16GB) or Mac M-Series (16GB Unified)
Consumer GPU (< 16 GB VRAM)
Est. 0.0 GB (FP16) / 0.0 GB (INT4)
Production Serving Recipes
vLLM Production
python3 -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server --model Hy4 preview --tensor-parallel-size 1 --gpu-memory-utilization 0.95 --max-model-len 4096 --enable-chunked-prefill
Ollama / llama.cpp
ollama run hy4 preview
SGLang Structured
python3 -m sglang.launch_server --model-path Hy4 preview --tp 1 --trust-remote-code
TGI Serving
text-generation-launcher --model-id Hy4 preview --num-shard 1 --max-batch-prefill-tokens 32000
Supported Inference Engines
vLLM

High-throughput PagedAttention server

Supported
Ollama

One-click CLI & local desktop serving

Supported
SGLang

Fast multi-turn structured decoding

Supported
TGI

Text Generation Inference

Supported
Llama.cpp

GGUF CPU/Apple Silicon execution

Supported
Precision & Quantization Formats
BF16 / FP16Full Precision

~0.0 GB VRAM required

FP8 (E4M3)Native FP8

~0.0 GB VRAM (Hopper speedup)

AWQ / GPTQ (4-bit)Activation-Aware

~0.0 GB VRAM

GGUF (Q4_K_M)Quantized Binary

CPU RAM / Apple Silicon optimized

Commercial Rates & Inference Costs

API & Deployment Pricing

Open-weights model available for local and private cloud deployment. Compute costs depend on the target GPU hardware instance.

Deployment TierPricing Structure
Open Checkpoint Weights$0.00 (Free Download)
Inference Token Consumption$0.00 / Token
Inference Cost & ROI Engine
Market Cloud Rate
Prompt / Input Volume:50M Tokens / mo
1M500M1,000M
Generated / Output Volume:10M Tokens / mo
1M250M500M
Estimated Monthly Spend
$125.00/ mo
Input (50M @ $1.50/1M):$75.00
Output (10M @ $5.00/1M):$50.00
Cloud GPU Breakeven Ratio
RunPod RTX 4090 ($316/mo)0.40x spend
Lambda 1x H100 ($1,800/mo)0.07x spend
💡 Open-weights model. You can self-host for $0 token API charge or consume via managed serverless endpoints at the rates shown above.
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Integration & Deployment
import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ.get("TENCENT_KEY", "EMPTY"),
    base_url="http://localhost:8000/v1"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="tencent-hy4-preview",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum superposition in 2 sentences."}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)
Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions about Hy4 preview

Essential facts, architectural specs, hardware constraints, and pricing answers for Hy4 preview.

To run Hy4 preview (Open Weights) locally, you generally need Depends on quantization. We recommend using quantized GGUF/AWQ formats with Ollama or vLLM to optimize memory footprint.

Primary Sources & Access Repositories

All technical specifications, parameter distributions, context architectures, and benchmark evaluations for Hy4 preview are audited against primary source release documentation, research whitepapers, and verified vendor API endpoints.

api id:tencent/hy4-preview