IQuest-Q1

Tencent has open-sourced its large Hy4 770B-parameter AI model under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, while also introducing IQuest-Q1, a much smaller 15B-parameter model aimed at more accessible use. Thai-language tech commentary is highlighting the release, noting the combination of a very large open model and a lightweight companion option for developers.

AI startup IQuest Research has released IQuest-Q1, an open-source mixture-of-experts model with 320 billion total parameters but only 15 billion active per query, aimed at agentic coding tasks. The sparse architecture promises large-model capability with much lower inference costs. It arrives as competition intensifies among open-weight coding models, and developers are weighing its benchmarks and licensing against rivals like DeepSeek and Qwen.