Tencent Hunyuan
by Tencent
At a glance
Tencent's conversational AI assistant built on its Hunyuan large language models.
chatbot llm multimodal
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- Category
- AI Assistants
- Business model
- Freemium
- Availability
- China (mainland)
- Launched
- 2023-09
Overview
Hunyuan is Tencent's conversational AI assistant, branded Yuanbao in China, built on its Hunyuan family of large language models. It supports Chinese and English chat, document understanding, image generation, and search-augmented answers, and integrates with Tencent products such as WeChat. The consumer assistant is free, while developers pay for Hunyuan model APIs on Tencent Cloud.
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Key features
- Chat assistant built on Tencent's Hunyuan models
- Document reading and summarization
- Image generation and multimodal understanding
- Integration with WeChat and Tencent services
Use cases
- Everyday Q&A and writing help in Chinese
- Summarizing documents and web content
- Generating images from text prompts
Pricing
The Hunyuan/Yuanbao assistant is free for consumers; Hunyuan model APIs are billed by usage on Tencent Cloud, and several Hunyuan models are also released with open weights.
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Links, dates and provenance
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- 2026-09-10
- Founded
- 1998
- Headquarters
- CN
- Canonical URL
- https://globalaiproductindex.com/products/hunyuan/
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- Mainland China
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- proprietary
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Frequently asked questions
What is Hunyuan?
Hunyuan is Tencent's large language model family and the consumer assistant (Yuanbao) built on top of it.
Is Hunyuan free?
The consumer assistant is free; developer API access on Tencent Cloud is paid, and some Hunyuan models have free open-weight releases.
What can the Hunyuan assistant do?
It handles bilingual chat, document understanding, search-augmented answers, and image generation.
Who should not choose Hunyuan?
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