Tencent unveiled Hy Image 3.5 Preview on Tuesday, integrating the image model into Yuanbao and video-editing and design tools.

After testing with hundreds of internal designers, Tencent claims it matches Seedream 5.0 Pro and slightly beats Google’s Nano Banana Pro and Alibaba’s Qwen-Image-3.0 Pro, without quantifying the comparisons.

Shares rose over 7% as investors weighed WeChat’s potential to support personal AI assistants at scale.