# Yao Shunyu

> Yao Shunyu is chief AI Scientist at Tencent. Hy3 on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-28

Chief AI Scientist, Tencent.

Yao Shunyu is Tencent's chief AI scientist and spoke for the company when it released the Hy3 preview in April 2026. He joined Tencent from OpenAI in 2025, where he worked on language agents built on large language models. He studied in Tsinghua University's Yao Class and holds a doctorate in computer science from Princeton.

## What Yao builds

- [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. Chief AI Scientist, Tencent, researched 2026-10-28.

## Works with

- [Chen Yidan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/chen-yidan/), Co-founder and Advisor Emeritus, Tencent
- [Ma Huateng](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ma-huateng/), Co-founder, chairman and CEO, Tencent
- [Xu Chenye](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/xu-chenye/), Co-founder and Chief Information Officer, Tencent
- [Zeng Liqing](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/zeng-liqing/), Co-founder and Advisor Emeritus, Tencent
- [Zhang Zhidong](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/zhang-zhidong/), Co-founder and Advisor Emeritus, Tencent

## Questions

### Who is Yao Shunyu?

Yao Shunyu is Tencent's chief AI scientist and spoke for the company when it released the Hy3 preview in April 2026. He joined Tencent from OpenAI in 2025, where he worked on language agents built on large language models. He studied in Tsinghua University's Yao Class and holds a doctorate in computer science from Princeton.

### What does Tencent (Hy team) make?

Anchor Terminal lists Hy3 from Tencent (Hy team). 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.

### How are Yao's tools graded?

Hy3 is graded B, 62.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://huggingface.co/tencent/Hy3
- https://www.tencent.com/who-we-are/our-team/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Huateng
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Yidan

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