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Former Tencent AI Lead Yao Xingcheng Joins Thinking Machines Lab

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Yao Xingcheng, the former head of pre-training for Tencent's Hunyuan large language model, has joined the North American startup Thinking Machines Lab. This move comes after Yao Xingcheng left Tencent in July and was reportedly offered a salary significantly higher than his previous earnings, which were in the tens of millions of RMB annually. While previously rumored to join Meta, Yao Xingcheng ultimately chose Thinking Machines Lab, a company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati. AI

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Former Tencent AI Lead Yao Xingcheng Joins Thinking Machines Lab

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  1. 雷峰网 (Leiphone) TIER_1 中文(ZH) ·

    Exclusive丨Former Tencent Hunyuan Pre-training Lead Yao Xingcheng Joins Thinking Machines Lab

    <p>雷峰网独家获悉，腾讯混元大语言模型预训练负责人姚星丞，近日已加入北美创业公司Thinking Machines Lab。</p><p>据知情人士透露，Thinking Machines Lab此次给姚星丞开出的薪资，明显高于其在腾讯的收入。而姚星丞在腾讯的年薪包，大约在数千万元人民币区间。</p><p>此前，姚星丞曾被传将加入Meta，如今靴子落地，他最终选择了这家由OpenAI前CTO Mira Murati创办的AI公司。</p><p>姚星丞今年7月从腾讯离职，主要负责腾讯混元大语言模型的预训练工作，是过去一年腾讯重点引入的年轻AI研究人才之一…

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