Tencent just released Hunyuan3D 3.0, boosting geometric resolution to 1536³ alongside 3.6 billion voxel ultra-HD modeling. The update introduces lifelike facial contouring and a layered generation strategy that reconstructs complex, hidden structures with high texture fidelity. Users can try 20 free generations on the Hunyuan 3D AI Engine or access it via Tencent Cloud API.
Tencent AI Lab and Washington University in St. Louis just unveiled R-Zero, a reinforcement learning framework that allows LLMs to self-evolve without any human-labeled data. By splitting a base model into competing Challenger and Solver roles, it autonomously generates progressively harder curriculum tasks. In benchmarks, it boosted Qwen3-4B's math reasoning score by 6.49 points. Why it matters: It could eliminate the massive data annotation bottleneck for reasoning models.
Tencent Hunyuan just open-sourced Hunyuan3D World Model 1.0, an industry-first model that turns a single prompt or image into an explorable, interactive 3D scene. It connects directly with standard CG pipelines for editing and simulation, built to speed up game dev and VR creation.
Nvidia just applied to resume sales of its H20 AI chips to China after securing U.S. government assurances, reversing an export ban from April. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick confirmed the move is tied to a deal on Chinese rare earth shipments. Chinese tech giants are already scrambling for stock, though U.S. lawmakers are pushing back hard.
Tencent Hunyuan just launched Hunyuan 3D 2.1, labeling it the first fully open-source, production-ready PBR 3D generative model. It generates realistic materials like leather and bronze with full physics-based lighting, releases all weights and training code, and runs straight on consumer-grade GPUs.
Top Chinese AI apps like ByteDance’s Doubao, Alibaba’s Qwen, and DeepSeek just disabled photo-recognition and exam-solving features during the country's college entrance exams. Chatbots told users the temporary blackout was implemented to prevent cheating. Basically, an AI kill-switch for exam season.
Tencent Hunyuan just unveiled Hunyuan-TurboS, an ultra-large MoE model blending Transformer and Mamba architectures to ease long-context training and KV-cache overhead. The team claims it tops GPT-4o and DeepSeek-V3 in math and reasoning, all while cutting inference costs to one-seventh of its predecessor.
Chinese tech giants including Tencent, Alibaba, and ByteDance are reportedly ramping up orders for Nvidia H20 chips to keep up with DeepSeek's low-cost models. While investors initially feared efficient models would gut hardware demand, heavy inference usage across sectors like healthcare and education is driving massive server orders instead.
Tencent Yuanbao just rolled out a "3D Avatar Dream Factory" feature that generates customizable 3D characters from a single front-facing selfie. The tool offers 10 different styles with PBR material mapping and full 360-degree viewing, and users can even take their virtual models to an offline 3D printer to make real figurines.
Tencent is shifting its strategic focus toward artificial intelligence as its core gaming revenue faces growing pressure. CEO Pony Ma acknowledged at an annual meeting that the tech giant felt behind competitors in gaming, but claimed its Hunyuan large language model has finally caught up to the first-tier AI race.
Chinese regulators have ordered tech giants like Tencent and Ant Group to shut down third-party ChatGPT services across their platforms. State media warned the bot spreads US propaganda, leaving local users cut off just as Chinese firms rush to launch domestic alternatives like Baidu's Ernie Bot next month.
