tencent-hunyuan/hy-mt2

Hy-MT2 is Tencent's open-source release of a family of machine translation models. The README describes them as fast-thinking multilingual translation models, meaning they aim to give a direct answer quickly rather than write out long reasoning before replying. The family comes in three sizes: a 1.8 billion parameter model, a 7 billion model, and a 30 billion mixture-of-experts model labelled 30B-A3B. All three support translation between 33 languages and accept translation instructions in several languages. A notable detail is the on-device build of the small model. Using a separate Tencent project called AngelSlim, the 1.8B model is squashed down to 1.25-bit quantization, which shrinks the file to about 440 megabytes and runs roughly 1.5 times faster than the unquantized version. The repository's model list links to several formats on Hugging Face, including FP8 versions for fast servers and GGUF files in 2-bit and 1.25-bit variants for use with llama.cpp on local machines. The README reports that the 7B and 30B-A3B models score higher than open-source competitors such as DeepSeek-V4-Pro and Kimi K2.6 in fast-thinking mode, and that the 1.8B model beats mainstream commercial translation APIs from Microsoft and Doubao on average. The detailed numbers and analysis are in an attached PDF report. Alongside the models, Tencent released a benchmark called IFMTBench for measuring how well a translation model follows instructions. The README also lists prompt templates for typical translation scenarios. There are templates for plain translation, translation with a glossary of preferred terms, translation in a specific style, personalised translation with extra user preferences, translation that must preserve delimiters exactly, and structured-data translation that touches only user-facing text in JSON or similar formats while leaving keys, code tags, and placeholders alone. Both Chinese and English versions of each prompt are shown side by side. For people who do not want to call the models directly, the team publishes a Hy-MT2-Translator Skill on ClawHub and SkillHub. The project also announces a partnership with the WMT26 conference: teams using Hy-MT models in the general translation and video subtitle tasks can win special awards sponsored by Hunyuan. The repository contains a Chinese-language README as well.