Tencent has pushed its in-house AI family a big step up the ladder. On November 4, 2026, the company announced Hy4, the latest generation of its Hy large language model, and said it now sits among the strongest open-source models in the world. According to Tencent's announcement, the model weights and system cards will follow "in the coming days," which would put a model with vision, computer use and long-horizon agent skills into the hands of developers who want to run it themselves.
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EyeNetra : Your vision correction Built Into A Headset
A newly launched mobile eye-test device could lead to prescription virtual-reality screens. After five years of development and about 40,000 tests worldwide, the smartphone-powered eye-test devices developed by MIT spinout EyeNetra is coming to hospitals, optometric clinics, optical stores, and even homes nationwide. But on the heels of its commercial release, EyeNetra says it’s been pursuing opportunities to collaborate with virtual-reality companies seeking to use the technology to develop “vi...
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Drawing in the third dimension
Storybooks and graphic novels could soon be three dimensional.
A new software platform from small business Mental Canvas reimagines drawing in the digital age. The company has introduced a new concept of picture books and graphic novels which are not flat two dimensional but could let us spin the whole story in a three dimensional setup.
The company believes that digital illustration does not enhance the sketch value whereas if the image is presented in 3D, it acts as a communication tool ...
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