According to 1M AI News, following Zhiju's founder Tang Jie's public call to "join us," Google DeepMind's Developer Experience Lead Omar Sanseviero today made a post on X, directly reaching out to Qwen team members: "Qwen friends: if any of you want a new home to build great models and contribute to the open models ecosystem, please reach out!" He mentioned that there are "many exciting plans" in the roadmap.
Prior to this, Sanseviero served as the Hugging Face Open Source Ecosystem Lead (self-described as the "Chief Llama Officer") and is now responsible for developer experience for products such as Gemini API, Gemma, and AI Studio. The Alibaba Qwen team has recently seen several core members depart, with domestic and international competitors accelerating their pursuit of this talent.

