Chinese tech companies are rushing to recruit more artificial intelligence (AI) talent, especially those with proven track records, amid a shortage of top AI brains in the country, according to local media reports and industry data. There is.
Moonshot AI, one of the country’s top AI startups, has hired Tan Xu, former principal research manager of the machine learning group at Microsoft Research Asia. The Beijing-based company calls Tan an “industry-leading audio technology and machine learning expert.”
“[Tan] “Together with our team, we will research and develop more advanced and useful intelligent assistants for Kimi users,” the company said in a statement Friday, referring to the Kimi AI chatbot.
Other Chinese companies are ramping up similar efforts to enlist top industry experts to build competing services. According to local media reports, TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is aggressively targeting talent for AI startups such as 01.AI, co-founded by former Google China chief Li Kaifu, and Beijing-based Seq-AI. We are implementing a comprehensive recruitment program.
Screenshot showing Moonshot AI’s Kim chatbot. Photo: Weibo
According to local media, ByteDance’s latest high-profile hire is Zhou Chang, an AI scientist at Alibaba Group Holding. Zhou is one of the key researchers behind Alibaba’s Tongyi Qianwen Large Language Model (LLM). ByteDance declined to comment. Alibaba, the owner of the South China Morning Post, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
