Tencent officially released Hunyuan World Model 1.5 on December 16, 2025 — the domestic industry's first real-time interactive 3D generation platform capable of streaming 720P video at 24 FPS from text or image prompts. Powered by a native 3D diffusion backbone and DiT-accelerated inference, it enables instant world building, avatar navigation, and object interaction in browser-based sessions. Most explosively, Tencent open-sourced the complete training framework, datasets, and inference code on GitHub, slashing entry barriers for developers and positioning China at the forefront of interactive 3D AI.

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