According to AI Frontline news, Liu Wei, a distinguished scientist at Tencent and one of the technical leaders of the Tencent Hyper-Model, has left the company. Liu Wei was responsible for the technical development and application practice of the Hyper-Model at Tencent. He has published papers at several international conferences and journals and has received multiple awards.
Liu Wei's departure has drawn attention from the industry, as he was one of the key figures behind Tencent's Hyper-Model. The Hyper-Model is an important initiative for Tencent in the field of artificial intelligence, aiming to provide powerful AI capabilities for various application scenarios.
According to available information, Liu Wei obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in 2012 and previously served as a research scientist at IBM's Watson Research Center. Dr. Liu has long been engaged in fundamental research and product development in fields such as computer vision, machine learning, data mining, and information retrieval, having published and accepted over 100 papers with a total citation count exceeding 3,600.
It is reported that Liu Wei has stated that the goal of Tencent's Hyper-Model is to transform disorder into order and chaos into regularity, which is also the mission of generative models. The Hyper-Model has already been integrated into over 700 business applications and scenarios within Tencent and possesses various capabilities, including text-to-image and video generation.
Liu Wei's departure may have a certain impact on the development of Tencent's Hyper-Model, but the specific effects will need to be observed. Whether Tencent will seek a new leader to take over Liu Wei's responsibilities is also a focal point of interest in the industry.
