Gemini 2.5 core contributor Qiyin Wu joins Baidu to lead Wenxin pre-training.

Beating AI News Flash: Former Google DeepMind Principal Engineer Qiyin Wu has joined Baidu, responsible for large model pre-training, and will continue to work from the United States after onboarding. She previously participated in Gemini R&D and was a core contributor to Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro.

She is very likely the researcher behind the codename "Wu Qin" that was exposed earlier this month. At that time, Sun Tianxiang, head of Baidu BMU, internally announced the recruitment of a researcher from a North American Frontier Lab. This person has participated in the R&D of several generations of large models over the past two years and will work with the team to strengthen ERNIE's pre-training capabilities.