Tencent previews Hy4 as overseas cloud customers double
Tencent says its Hy4 model and a cheaper Hy4 Flash variant are coming soon, as it pushes its WorkBuddy office agent into international markets where its active cloud customer base has doubled in a year.
Tencent announced at its 2026 Global Digital Ecosystem Summit that a general release of Hy4 is "coming soon." The company says the model improves performance on long-horizon and real-world productivity tasks, reasons more efficiently, and adds visual understanding for the first time. Hy4 Flash, a lower-cost variant, will keep the visual and agentic capabilities. Tencent gave no release date, benchmarks or pricing for either model.
The Hy models will be offered through Tencent Cloud TokenHub, a single API that also serves third-party models and handles access, governance and billing in one place.
Tencent also released figures for WorkBuddy, its AI office productivity agent. Since its March launch, the agent has handled more than nine billion task requests. The company says it is used across more than 50 industries and by half of China's top 500 enterprises. Tencent says the ecosystem includes over 50,000 developers and partners and more than 200,000 skills. WorkBuddy is now being expanded for international enterprises, alongside CodeBuddy, the Agent Development Platform and other tools. In China, Tencent introduced Buddy One, a system that lets WorkBuddy coordinate tasks across Tencent's office apps and specialised agents.
Tencent says its active overseas customer base doubled over the past year and its international AI business grew by triple digits, driven by demand for agentic deployments. It did not give absolute figures. Tencent Cloud now runs 25 regions and 70 availability zones after adding capacity in 2026 in Frankfurt, Osaka, Riyadh, Malaysia, Mexico and Thailand. The company named new partners in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, including TruKKer and Central Retail Digital.