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  "markdown": "Co-founder and Advisor Emeritus, Tencent.\n\nChen Yidan, also known as Charles Chen, co-founded Tencent in 1998 and was its chief administrative officer until March 2013, also leading the Tencent Charity Foundation. He remains an Advisor Emeritus at Tencent and in 2016 founded the Yidan Prize, which recognises contributions to education research and development.\n\n## What Chen builds\n\n- [Hy Memory](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hy-memory.md), graded C, 57.7/100, in Agent memory. Hy Memory is Tencent Hunyuan's open-source memory engine and Python SDK for LLM agents. `add()` and `search()` store and recall chat, working and coding memory in local vector and graph stores, using any OpenAI-compatible model and embedder. Co-founder and Advisor Emeritus, Tencent, researched 2026-10-27.\n- [Hy3](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hy3.md), graded B, 62.6/100, in Open-weight models. Hy3 is Tencent's open-weight mixture-of-experts language model, 295B parameters with 21B active, a 256K-token context and per-request reasoning effort, published on Hugging Face in BF16 and FP8 under Apache 2.0. Co-founder and Advisor Emeritus, Tencent, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Ma Huateng](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ma-huateng/), Co-founder, chairman and CEO, Tencent\n- [Xu Chenye](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/xu-chenye/), Co-founder and Chief Information Officer, Tencent\n- [Zeng Liqing](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/zeng-liqing/), Co-founder and Advisor Emeritus, Tencent\n- [Zhang Zhidong](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/zhang-zhidong/), Co-founder and Advisor Emeritus, Tencent\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Chen Yidan?\n\nChen Yidan, also known as Charles Chen, co-founded Tencent in 1998 and was its chief administrative officer until March 2013, also leading the Tencent Charity Foundation. He remains an Advisor Emeritus at Tencent and in 2016 founded the Yidan Prize, which recognises contributions to education research and development.\n\n### What does Tencent Hunyuan, Tencent (Hy team) make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Hy Memory and Hy3 from Tencent Hunyuan, Tencent (Hy team). Hy Memory is Tencent Hunyuan's open-source memory engine and Python SDK for LLM agents. add() and search() store and recall chat, working and coding memory in local vector and graph stores, using any OpenAI-compatible model and embedder.\n\n### How are Chen's tools graded?\n\nHy Memory is graded C, 57.7 out of 100; Hy3 is graded B, 62.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/Hy-Memory/main/README.md\n- https://memory.hunyuan.tencent.com/\n- https://www.tencent.com/who-we-are/our-team/\n- https://huggingface.co/tencent/Hy3\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Huateng\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Yidan\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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