Hunyuan team @ Tencent (混元)
Known for: Tencent's foundation-model stack for WeChat/cloud/games, plus video and 3D.
Tencent's foundation-model org. Yao Shunyu (姚顺雨, 28, ex-OpenAI) appointed Chief AI Scientist December 2025. Tencent AI Lab dissolved into Hunyuan March 2026. Recruited Microsoft's WizardLM team in 2025.
- YAO Shunyu (姚顺雨)Chief AI Scientist, Tencent (December 2025)
- LU Shan (卢山)President, Tencent TEG (Technology and Engineering Group)
- LIU Yuhong (刘煜宏)VP Tencent Cloud; Head of AI Data Department, Hunyuan
- HU Han (胡瀚)Head of Multimodal Large Model R&D, Tencent Hunyuan (joined 2024)
- WANG Di (王迪)Deputy GM, LLM Department, Tencent Hunyuan
- XU CAN (徐灿)Senior Researcher, Tencent Hunyuan (joined May 2025)
- SUN Qingfeng (孙庆峰)Senior Researcher, Tencent Hunyuan (joined May 2025)
- KONG WeijieTencent Hunyuan video generation tech lead
- SUN Xingwu (孙兴武)Tencent Hunyuan LLM department researcher
Models & API pricing
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News & coverage
Notable recent updates, newest first.
Tencent posts record 527.84B RMB capex in Q2 2025, a 176% YoY surge, shifting its valuation story from cash machine to AI bet.
Hunyuan (Chinese: Hunyuan) launches a 3D world generation framework that builds editable worlds from a single sentence.
Hunyuan (Chinese: Hunyuan) expands WeChat's Xiao Wei assistant with 16 new AI entry points including article summaries and scan-to-AI features.
Hunyuan (Chinese: Hunyuan) sees its WorkBuddy become the leading AI office agent in four months, surprising ByteDance and Alibaba.
Hu Han, Hunyuan (Chinese: 混元)'s multimodal understanding lead, leaves to found a startup; the team may pivot to world models.
Tencent Cloud partners with RoboScience to launch Embodied-AI-as-a-Service (EaaS) platform combining cloud, LLMs, and IoT.
Hunyuan (Chinese: 混元) released 1-bit and 4-bit quantized Hy3 models, compressing 295B parameters from 598GB to 85.5GB for single-GPU deployment.
Tencent converges its productivity AI around Hunyuan (Chinese: 混元), with WorkBuddy handling execution and office tools becoming agent capabilities.
Tencent leads a consortium to buy back Meta's stake in Manus at ~$2B valuation, retaining a minority position.
Yonglong Tian, an OpenAI researcher who worked on GPT-5, joins Tencent's LLM team to work on VLM research.