Mysterious Hy3 LLM Tops OpenRouter Rankings
TL;DR. An unknown LLM called Hy3 preview recently surpassed established models in OpenRouter's usage rankings. - Hy3's surge in popularity occurred despite a lack of public information and modest benchmark performance. - The model's low cost on OpenRouter, at $0.066 per 1M input tokens, likely drove its significant usage. - Tencent developed Hy3, with its open-source release showing initially unfavorable benchmark results.
- Hy3 preview, an unknown LLM, became the top model by token usage on OpenRouter's rankings.
- The model's rise is perplexing given its obscurity and average performance in initial testing.
- Access to Hy3 on OpenRouter is significantly cheaper, priced at $0.066/1M input tokens compared to competitors.
- Tencent is identified as the developer, with open-source release details found on Hugging Face.