The Chinese technology group Tencent Holdings is lagging behind the development of AI and is making further changes to the company's organizational structure. As part of a realignment of the Chinese technology group, Tencent Holdings Ltd.
The employees of the original AI lab will be assigned to the large-scale language model department and the center for cooperation between industry, science and research.
Tencent's Vice President (VP) Jiang Jie will no longer be in charge of the AI lab, but all other positions will remain unchanged, according to a company statement.
Following the reorganization, some former employees of the AI lab will be transferred to the Hunyuan team and report directly to Yao Shunyu.
The Cooperation Center for Industry, Science and Research will remain in place, with the head of the Multimodal Research Unit reporting to TEG President Lu Shan, local media reported.
Tencent President Martin Lau explained that the internet and technology group has intensively strengthened the entire team in the area of large-scale models and restructured work processes in recent months.
The main goal of the company's restructuring is to strengthen the team and optimize organizational methods.
The company is moving away from experimental research in isolated laboratories towards the direct integration of AI into its core products (WeChat, gaming, cloud).
