Tencent is accelerating its AI push with the wider international rollout of its flagship Hy3 model through WorkBuddy,...

Tencent is accelerating its AI push with the wider international rollout of its flagship Hy3 model through WorkBuddy, Tencent Design Miora, and TokenHub. According to SCMP, Hy3 is available worldwide, free on WorkBuddy until August 31, and saw API call volume increase more than 68-fold versus the prior generation. Tencent also claims Hy3 topped OpenRouter's LLM usage leaderboard in its first week. This expansion points to rising inference workloads that will likely drive further GPU and AI compute procurement for Tencent Cloud, a major hyperscaler. Separately, Pandaily reports the launch of WorkBuddy Security Center, adding OS-API layer sandboxing and version rollback as default agent safety defaults, indicating a maturing enterprise agent stack that could accelerate adoption. The combination of a rapid API growth and enterprise-grade agent security suggests Tencent is investing heavily in AI inference infrastructure to support global demand.

What the sources said:

• SCMP: "the model's application programming interface call volume had increased more than 68-fold compared with the previous generation, and it had topped the global large language model usage leaderboard on tracking site OpenRouter in the first week of its launch"
• SCMP: "Hy3 would enable organisations to 'move beyond AI experimentation and put intelligence to work in practical, trusted and scalable ways,' said Poshu Yeung, senior vice-president of Tencent Cloud"
• Pandaily: "WorkBuddy Security Center Goes Live: Tencent Brings OS-API Layer Sandboxing, Recoverable File Deletion, and Version Rollback as Default Agent Safety Defaults"