Following Yao Shunyu, Tian Yonglong has also joined Tencent's CEO/President's Office, taking charge of Hunyuan multimodal technology.

动察 Beating AI Flash News: Tian Yonglong, a former OpenAI researcher, has recently been brought into Tencent's CEO/President's Office, with his title officially confirmed as "Head of Hunyuan Multimodal," reporting to Tencent's Chief AI Scientist Yao Shunyu.

Bo Liefeng, the former head of the multimodal model team, has stepped away from direct frontline model operations and has been reassigned as the operations lead for the foundational model department.

In July this year, Tencent merged its large language model and multimodal model teams into a foundational model department, under the unified leadership of Yao Shunyu. Tian Yonglong joined Tencent at that time, taking charge of the VLM (Vision-Language Model) direction.

Now, the division of responsibilities within Tencent's foundational model department has been further clarified: Yao Shunyu oversees the entire foundational model department, while Tian Yonglong is responsible for Hunyuan multimodal.