The tech giant’s latest offering leverages large-scale reinforcement learning, rivalling DeepSeek in top benchmark tests
Tencent Holdings has unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) reasoning model, Hunyuan T1, that rivals DeepSeek’s R1 in both performance and pricing.
The Chinese technology giant’s latest offering, launched on Friday, leverages large-scale reinforcement learning, a technique also employed by DeepSeek in its R1 reasoning model, which launched in January.
The release is an official version of the model after a beta run of T1-preview on its chatbot Yuanbao. It scored 87.2 points on the Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) Pro benchmark, a test that gauges a model’s knowledge. That bested DeepSeek-R1’s 84 points but trailed the 89.3 points achieved by OpenAI’s o1, the reasoning model that the ChatGPT maker launched in December.
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