Tencent is ending service for Final Fantasy XIV Mobile in China and canceling its global release, while simultaneously releasing the open-source AI model Hy3.
Tencent's game division faces a major setback with the shutdown of Final Fantasy XIV Mobile in mainland China. The mobile adaptation, developed by Lightspeed Studios and launched in June 2025, will end service on September 30, 2026. Square Enix and Tencent announced the termination of their license agreement and apologized for canceling the planned global version, citing business adjustments and market changes. New user registrations and in-game purchases were suspended immediately upon the announcement.
On the AI front, Tencent released Hy3 on July 6, an open-source model with 295 billion total parameters and 21 billion active parameters. The model matches or outperforms larger competitors like GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek-V4-Pro in benchmarks, and beats GPT-5.5 in scientific research tasks. Hy3 is designed to reduce hallucinations by only answering when evidence exists, and is available under Apache 2.0 with API pricing starting at 1 yuan per million input tokens.
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Square Enix and Tencent announced that Final Fantasy XIV Mobile will end service in mainland China on September 30, 2026. New user registrations and in-game purchases were suspended immediately. The companies also apologized for canceling the planned global version, citing business adjustments and market changes. The mobile game launched in China in June 2025 and was developed by Lightspeed Studios.
Square Enix and Tencent announced on July 17 that the Chinese version of Final Fantasy XIV Mobile will end service on September 30, about a year after its launch. The license agreement between the two companies is being terminated, and the planned global expansion is now uncertain.
Tencent released Hy3, an open-source AI model with 295 billion total parameters and 21 billion active parameters, on July 6. The model matches or outperforms larger models like GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek-V4-Pro in benchmarks, and beats GPT-5.5 in scientific research tasks. Hy3 is designed to reduce hallucinations by only answering when evidence exists. It is available under Apache 2.0, with API pricing from 1 yuan per million input tokens, and free on OpenRouter for two weeks.
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