China’s Tencent Hy3 is FREE & Opensource! artwork

China’s Tencent Hy3 is FREE & Opensource!

AI News Today | Julian Goldie Podcast

July 7, 2026

Tencent Hunyuan HY3 (295B) Is FREE for 2 Weeks: How to Run It via OpenRouter + Hermes (Honest Tests)The video covers Tencent Hunyuan HY3, a new free, open-source 295B-parameter mixture-of-experts model from China, available on Hugging Face and reportedly outperforming DeepSeek and Qwen on some...
Speakers: Julian Goldie
**Julian Goldie** (0:00)
There's a brand new free open source AI model from China called Tencent Hunyuan HY3. It's 295 billion parameters, mixture of experts model. It's open source, and that means you can host it locally if you have a good set up. If not, you can actually run it for free in two different ways. I'll show you how in a second. And on benchmarks, this is actually outperforming on some benchmarks this week. So we can see, for example, on this benchmark, Hunyuan is outperforming both DeepSeek and Qwen 3.7 Max. I'll show you my own tests in a minute. And just to confirm, this is open source. As you can see, it's hosted on Hugging Face. So one of the most important things about this is that you can actually run it for free.
So if you're wondering how, basically what you can do is we've done over here is you can create a coder like this. We've already got it inside our agent operating system. And from here, what you can do is you can use the free API that lives on Opta. And then you can plug that into a coder like this so that we can say, for example, build our beautiful landing page. It goes off and codes it. We can preview it over here. And then we can save all of our builds over here. And this works in real time.
And if you're wondering how to get access to that, you can actually go over to OpenRouter to get the free API. And then the actual agent operator system, I mean, you could build your own or you could get ours from the ARProper Boardroom. Link in the comments description or go to the arproperboardroom.com. So it's literally just dropped. It is free as an API. It's only free until July the 21st. So bear that in mind.
It's only available for free for two weeks. So you might as well make the most out of it. And also something to note here is that you can also plug this into Hermes. So for example, we could use it inside the Hermes ASTRA or the Outreach tool that we've generated for lead generation over here. We could also use it inside Hermes Oracle because HY3 is now available on News Portal for free, as you can see right here. So it will be available on News Portal for two weeks, which means you can plug it into Hermes and it is an agentic model. So this is pretty impressive because we can code out for free on the API.
It is available open source and also you can use it inside Hermes and it can actually build out decent stuff. Now, you might be at this point wondering, okay, is it better than GLM 5.2? How does it perform versus, for example, Opus 4.8? Honestly, at that point, I would say it's not as good. So I just want to be 100% honest with you. I'm not going to be asking you or anything like that. Like HY3, if we have a look on the benchmarks here, it can create some okay stuff, but it's never going to outperform Fable 5 It's kind of up there with Opus on some tests, but not really. And versus GLM 5.2, I would still say the GLM 5.2 is crushing on this. So if we have a look, for example, we've got a creation from here. This is like a Doom style game, and we created this with GLM 5.2. It looks all right, right? It does a job. We can create stuff. It's pretty useful. And then if we compare this versus Tencent, this is probably the better option of what we've created over here, but still like the controls are a little bit weird. So actually, I would say like that creation from HY3 is actually better than GLM 5.2.
However, if we have a look at something like the Dragon Realm, which is an open source game here, where this is a creation of GLM 5.2. So it's a fully open source game, looks really cool. Nice graphics, fully open world, et cetera. If we compare that versus the creation from Tencent HY3, which we've got right here, it's just not quite as nice, not quite as smooth, et cetera.
So for me personally, if I had a choice between these and we'll check the flight simulator as well. So this is the flight simulator with GLM 5.2.
If you compare that versus three, it starts off okay. But you see how it's so like buggy here. And then if we actually try and go up in the air and fly around, like that's when you realize, okay, then the physics on this sort of stuff is not great. Not great. Here's another example. So this is GLM 5.2 created this Neon City game, which is pretty fun, pretty interesting to play, quite cool.

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