Hunyuan-MT (HY-MT)

Tencent's open 7B translation models covering 33 languages including Chinese minority languages

What Hunyuan-MT (HY-MT) does

  • Tencent's open 7B translation models covering 33 languages including Chinese minority languages
  • Won 30 of 31 language pairs in the WMT25 general translation task
  • HY-MT1.5 update runs on small devices; open weights on Hugging Face

Hunyuan-MT (HY-MT) — straight answers

What is Hunyuan-MT (HY-MT)?

Hunyuan-MT (HY-MT) is listed under Translation & Language AI, in the Content & Media Generation category on Flocci AI Tools. Tencent's open 7B translation models covering 33 languages including Chinese minority languages. It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at github.com.

Is Hunyuan-MT (HY-MT) free?

Hunyuan-MT (HY-MT) is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 399 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.

What can Hunyuan-MT (HY-MT) do?

Hunyuan-MT (HY-MT) does 3 things the catalog singles out: Tencent's open 7b translation models covering 33 languages including chinese minority languages; won 30 of 31 language pairs in the wmt25 general translation task; hy-mt1.5 update runs on small devices; open weights on hugging face.

What is the best free alternative to Hunyuan-MT (HY-MT)?

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