Tencent releases open-source Hy4 LLM with first-ever visual understanding at unchanged pricing
On November 4, Tencent released Hy4, its new large language model, adding visual understanding for the first time and improving long-context and long-horizon agent tasks. Weights are due in the coming days, and API pricing stays at about US$0.90 per million input tokens and US$2.70 per million output tokens. My take: models keep getting better without getting pricier, so the savings go to whoever bothers to compare. Don't lock your company into one model; test a few on your real tasks regularly, because what you save is profit.