Hy-MT2 (Hunyuan-MT)
Tencent's open translation models, strong for Chinese and Asian languages.
FreeOpen sourceRuns on your PC
- Best for
- Offline translation, Chinese and minority languages
- On your PC
- Technical
- Works on
- Windows, Mac, Linux
- License
- Apache-2.0
What’s good
- Apache-2.0, free even for business use
- Covers about 33 languages including Cantonese, Tibetan, Uyghur
- Small 1.8B version for weaker computers
Downsides
- Setup is technical, GGUF needs a newer llama.cpp
- Fewer languages than TranslateGemma
The details.
- Version
- Hy-MT2 1.8B, 7B, 30B-A3BReleased 2026-05
- Open source
- Yes, Apache-2.0
- Made by
- Tencent
- Website
- huggingface.co
Should you use it?
It is #8 of 10. Good for offline translation, chinese and minority languages; for most people, Gemini is the better start.
Can I run it myself?
Yes. Technical: command line or python.
Use llama.cpp, vLLM, Transformers.
- You need
- 7B model needs a 6 GB GPU or 8 GB RAM
- Setup
- TechnicalCommand line or Python
- Laptop, 8 GBRuns
- PC, 16 GB+Runs
- Mac, 16 GBRuns
- Mac, 32 GBRuns
- Mac, 64 GB+Runs
- PC, 8 GB GPURuns
- PC, 12 GB GPURuns
- PC, 16 GB GPURuns
- PC, 24 GB GPURuns
- WorkstationRuns