Tencent continues to dig up top AI talents: ExxAI multi-modal leaders join mixed elements

Comparing the news, AI News, it was revealed that Lin Xudong, the head of xAI's multi-modal understanding, has joined Tencent's mixed media. Lin Xudong previously participated in the Gemini multimodal model development at Google DeepMind, then joined xAI to take charge of the direction of multimodal understanding. This is already the third largest core researcher that Tencent has recruited from major foreign companies in less than a year. Yao Shunyu has become Tencent's chief AI scientist, and former OpenAI researcher Tian Yonglong also joined in July to participate in the development of visual language models.