SMRTR AIMar 16, 2026Dataconomy

DeepSeek V4 and Tencent’s new Hunyuan model to launch in April

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China's AI competition intensifies as DeepSeek prepares to launch its multimodal V4 model in April 2026, featuring enhanced coding abilities and long-term memory capabilities for text, image, and video generation. Tencent simultaneously releases its new Hunyuan model led by former OpenAI researcher Shunyu Yao, emphasizing practical real-world applications over benchmark performance.

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