Tencent announced that Tian Yonglong, a former researcher at OpenAI, has joined the company to participate in the development of VLM.
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Former OpenAI Chinese researcher Tian Yonglong joins Tencent Hunyuan team
According to Beating's monitoring, Tian Yonglong, a former member of the OpenAI technical team, has confirmed joining Tencent's Hunyuan team and will participate in the research and development of visual language models. Tian Yonglong graduated from Tsinghua University with a bachelor's degree and received his Ph.D. from MIT. He previously served as a senior research scientist at Google Research and Google DeepMind, primarily researching computer vision and generative models. This is another top-tier Chinese AI researcher recruited by Tencent Hunyuan, following the recruitment of Chief AI Scientist Yao Shunyu last December. Tencent recently launched the official version of the Hunyuan Hy3 model, led by Yao Shunyu, under an open-source license. With Tian Yonglong's addition, Tencent Hunyuan's talent pool in multimodal and visual model development will be further strengthened.
Ashkan Seyedi, former NVIDIA executive in optical interconnect technology, has joined ams Osram as head of its optical interconnect business.
ams OSRAM announced on July 2nd that Ashkan Seyedi, former senior executive in optical interconnect technology at NVIDIA, has officially joined the company as Vice President and General Manager of the Optical Interconnect Business Line, responsible for driving the development of optical interconnect technologies for next-generation AI data centers. Seyedi previously led optical interconnect technology R&D at NVIDIA, participating in the development of high-speed optical communication technologies for AI clusters and data centers. (Jiemian)
Joshua Achiam, Chief Futurist at OpenAI, has announced his departure.
PANews reported on July 8 that Joshua Achiam, chief futurist at OpenAI, announced on the X platform that he will be leaving the company he has worked for for nearly nine years this month.
Anastasia Golovina, a former member of the Chainlink team, has joined Hyperliquid as Chief Communications Officer.
PANews reported on July 7 that Anastasia Golovina, a former member of the Chainlink communications team, has joined Hyperliquid as Chief Communications Officer. Golovina stated that she has over eight years of experience in the crypto industry.
Sun Tianxiang has officially joined Baidu as the head of the Basic Model R&D Department.
Mars Finance reported on July 1st that Sun Tianxiang, a technical expert in the field of large-scale models, has officially joined Baidu as the head of the Basic Model Development Unit (BMU) and has also joined the Baidu Model Committee (BMC). Sun Tianxiang previously led the development of MOSS and proposed the MaaS concept. Baidu had previously established a BMU and an Application Model Development Unit (AMU, headed by Jia Lei). (Wide Angle Observation)
OpenAI's Rogue AI Agents Were Probing Hugging Face Two Months Before Hack
An independent researcher found the agents hijacked Hugging Face accounts and mapped the platform's defenses as early as May 13—activity OpenAI's own incident report never fully described.