SF startup life: 4 launches & announcements in 2 weeks
First free weekend: curled up at home clinging to a piece of my past life as a reporter
If you want a mood check on China tech, please give it a read -
I wrote about a different kind of romance scam (local governments & startups), Chinese VCs’ rush to have their last dance, and fond memories of Shenzhen’s humid and lively summer 🥟
A quick word:
Many people do not know me and are new to my work, and thus are quick to brand my reporting as rumor-mongering or fake news.
@Culpium is built on 25 years of experience.
https://t.co/1BLL4DBCxP
@Sonos@WorkBuddy_AI@ChatGPT@TencentHunyuan The biggest problem right now is speed. It takes around one minute or so from giving the first command to the speaker actually playing. But to be fair, choosing something in the Sonos app might take just as long.
Day 1 of @Sonos 27 MCP: it works with @WorkBuddy_AI, but not @ChatGPT. So I gave it a try.
The way it connects with other services feels like the good old Sonos.
The interesting part is that in this way Sonos handles the system, but the AI decides what you actually hear.
@Sonos@WorkBuddy_AI@ChatGPT I gave it a vague command: play some Chinese music in the dining room. Instead of starting with my favorites, @TencentHunyuan Hy4 picked Apple Music’s A-List Mandopop, a playlist I’d never played before.
In that sense, Sonos feels smart again.
Finally brought @voxatmosapp to iPad.
It started on iPhone, made its way to cars with CarPlay and to the living room with Apple TV, and now it’s ready for another screen, or maybe two 👀
iPhone. CarPlay. Apple TV. iPad. More to come.
VoxAtmos 3.7 is now available.
📱 Now on iPad
🎵 Clearer track availability based on your Apple Music region
🌎 View your current Apple Music region in Settings
🚗 Local currency support for car pricing
Free to download on iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV.
https://t.co/If7HIjnqu7
VoxAtmos for tvOS now ranks No. 3 on the 🇭🇰 TV App Store.
Free to download. Browse, search, and discover Dolby Atmos music, then listen directly in the app with an active Apple Music subscription across your TV and iPhone.
Now available in all regions.
https://t.co/npnmqpOXn8
My app @voxatmosapp somehow made it to No. 2 overall among free TV apps on the Hong Kong App Store. Top 100 in Taiwan, and Top 200 in the US.
Never thought my little app could get anywhere near that position this soon. Totally unexpected.
Got goosebumps when I saw it.
VoxAtmos is now available on Apple TV.
Designed for Spatial Audio listeners, VoxAtmos for tvOS brings its expanding catalog to the biggest screen in the home.
Discover releases, curations, and more across genres, then listen in the app with an active Apple Music subscription.
What I like about Hy models is that they’re really cheap, often free, and they get the work done.
Hy4p is free for the next two weeks, so try it yourself.
https://t.co/W0QqAmMOsF
Introducing Hy4 preview
◆ Open weights: 770B MoE, 49B active, 1M context
◆ Built for real work: code, docs and analysis, scientific research
◆ Hy4 preview helped optimize its own training pipeline, kernels included
◆ We ship upgrades, not price hikes
Free in @WorkBuddy_AI for the next two weeks
Blog:https://t.co/aooJ4zvF7c
GitHub:https://t.co/dPAu5TkRhN
Get WorkBuddy:https://t.co/bsGBeiE5ox
Tencent is moving surprisingly fast with Hy. Hy3p still feels like yesterday.
I’ve been using Hy4p & WorkBuddy for @voxatmosapp. I care less about benchmarks, but in my experience, it’s been more reliable with complex tasks. And Hy4 simply makes WorkBuddy a much stronger player.
🚀 Hy4 preview is here.
770B, 49B active, 1M context.
Built for productivity.
Open source frontier.
Consistent affordable price.
Use it. Tell us what breaks.
More on Hy blog:https://t.co/rbl1IWRk3C
HuggingFace:https://t.co/mE9wevH5XR
Github:https://t.co/pyl9zckpoL
I’ve been using Hy3 for the past three weeks on my @voxatmosapp, and it’s honestly beyond my expectations. It made me rethink what AI models today can do: they can create real impact at an incredibly low cost. It’s free this month, so I’d definitely recommend giving it a try.
🚀 Hy3 is now live in WorkBuddy global—free for users worldwide through August 31, 2026 (PT).
Research, analyze data, create documents and presentations, and handle workplace communications in an agentic AI workspace—no setup required.
Hy3 is also available through Tencent Design Miora and Tencent Cloud TokenHub.
Try it:
https://t.co/nT4bY3MpFr
#TencentHy #Hy3 #WorkBuddy #Miora #TencentCloud
A month after we shipped Hy3, the more interesting question became where you can actually use it
More entry points live now:
>WorkBuddy, our agent workspace. In internal evals at tencent, Hy3 delivered a task success rate above 90% and cut average task time by 34% over the previous Hy model. Grab it at https://t.co/xtD9QP3Tta
>Miora, our creative studio, Hy3 handling reasoning across multi-agent design work
>TokenHub, Tencent Cloud's MaaS platform, with routing across Hy3 and other models
More of the Tencent Cloud AI-native stack is next, and the API and open weights aren't going anywhere
what's the touchpoint you'd want to see Hy3 in next?