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Hy MT2 1.8B
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RANKED #157 OF 316 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #209 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 6.9 · 831 VOICES ·
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Hy-MT2-1.8B is a compact 1.8B-parameter translation model from Tencent. It supports 33 language pairs and five Chinese dialect and minority-language pairs, with workflows for structured, delimiter-based, contextual, glossary-based, and styl
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VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 825 voices in this window
HONEYMOON FADING
Early praise is cooling off in recent weeks.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Hy MT2 1.8B once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
1.8B parameters, a Q4 file is about 1.1 GB (quantizes down to ~440 MB with AngelSlim)
- BARE MINIMUM
Raspberry Pi 5 (8GB) or Mini PC with Intel N100
8 GB RAM
~$80Q4_K_M GGUF, ~15 tok/s, 8k context
- SWEET SPOT
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Super (Used PC)
6 GB VRAM
~$120 USEDFull FP16 offloaded to VRAM, ~90 tok/s, 8k context
- FULL POWER
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$280Full FP16 or FP8 batch processing, ~160 tok/s, full context
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN HY MT2 1.8B?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Hy MT2 1.8B takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMRaspberry Pi 5 (8GB) or Mini PC with Intel N100 | SWEET SPOTNvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Super (Used PC) | FULL POWERNvidia GeForce RTX 3060 12GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~33 S★★★★★ | ~6 S★★★★★ | ~3 S★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~1.7 MIN★★★★★ | ~17 S★★★★★ | ~9 S★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~8.9 MIN★★★★★ | ~89 S★★★★★ | ~50 S★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~28 MIN★★★★★ | ~4.6 MIN★★★★★ | ~2.6 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~17 MIN★★★★★ | ~2.8 MIN★★★★★ | ~1.6 MIN★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Not enough discussion about Hy MT2 1.8B yet to call it. We found 831 posts but people did not say much either way.
88 POSTS · 743 COMMENTS · GITHUB · REDDIT · BLUESKY · OTHER FORUMS
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
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DeepSeek V4 Flash> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2026-06-01 · 537 UPVOTESLocal AI News You Missed - May 2026
Local AI News You Missed - May 2026
- BLUESKY · 2026-05-21 · 24 UPVOTESHy-MT2 🔥 New translation model family from Tencent Hunyuan ✨ 1.8B / 7B / 30B-A3B MoE ✨ Supports 33 languages ✨ 1.8B >
Hy-MT2 🔥 New translation model family from Tencent Hunyuan ✨ 1.8B / 7B / 30B-A3B MoE ✨ Supports 33 languages ✨ 1.8B >
- BLUESKY · 2026-05-22 · 19 UPVOTESTencent's Hy-MT2 (open-weight family of “fast-thinking” multilingual translation models) 🌱Three model sizes, 33 langu
Tencent's Hy-MT2 (open-weight family of “fast-thinking” multilingual translation models) 🌱Three model sizes, 33 langu
- BLUESKY · 2026-08-21 · 3 UPVOTES⚡ New open model to know: Hy-MT2-1.8B (Tencent) Context: 8.2k tokens · $0.04 in / $0.18 out per 1M · open weights All
⚡ New open model to know: Hy-MT2-1.8B (Tencent) Context: 8.2k tokens · $0.04 in / $0.18 out per 1M · open weights All
- BLUESKY · 2026-05-22 · 3 UPVOTESRepo: github.com/Tencent-Huny... Project: aistudio.tencent.com/llm/en?tabIn... Models: huggingface.co/collections/...
Repo: github.com/Tencent-Huny... Project: aistudio.tencent.com/llm/en?tabIn... Models: huggingface.co/collections/...
- BLUESKY · 2026-05-21 · 2 UPVOTESLink -> huggingface.co/tencent/Hy-M...
Link -> huggingface.co/tencent/Hy-M...
- BLUESKY · 2025-08-04 · 2 UPVOTES🤗HuggingFace: Hunyuan-0.5B： Hunyuan-1.8B：
🤗HuggingFace: Hunyuan-0.5B： Hunyuan-1.8B：
- REDDIT · 2025-11-01 · 2 UPVOTESComment in r/singularity
Comment in r/singularity
- REDDIT · 2026-08-22 · 2 UPVOTESComment in r/artificial
Comment in r/artificial
- GITHUB · 2026-08-22 · 0 UPVOTESfeat(gguf): support Q6_K, fix byte-level tokenizers, emit loadable packages
feat(gguf): support Q6_K, fix byte-level tokenizers, emit loadable packages
- GITHUB · 2026-08-22 · 0 UPVOTEScuda-ep: fp16 int4 GEMV ignores accuracy_level; no int8-activation path (49.7% of peak bandwidth vs llama.cpp 63.4%)
cuda-ep: fp16 int4 GEMV ignores accuracy_level; no int8-activation path (49.7% of peak bandwidth vs llama.cpp 63.4%)
- GITHUB · 2026-10-03 · 0 UPVOTESfeat(hy-mt2): add vLLM SDAA operator overlay
feat(hy-mt2): add vLLM SDAA operator overlay