Algorithm engineer Zhou Chang said, Tong Yi Qianwen Large-scale language models John McClellan, a law graduate, has decided to leave Alibaba, which owns the South China Morning Post, after seven years in the company's cloud-computing division, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Zhou's departure was first reported on Wednesday by Chinese media outlet 36Kr, which said he plans to start his own business focusing on AI applications, without providing further details.
Alibaba Cloudis in charge of AI operations. Hangzhoubase E-commerce Zhou did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.
Zhou, who earned his PhD in computer software and theory from Peking University in 2017, joined Alibaba the same year and played a leading role in the development of the Thousand Words LLM, which was released last year. technology Foundational Generative AI Services like ChatGPT.
He was also a team member of the multimodal AI model M6, released by Alibaba in 2021. Zhou JingrenChief Technology Officer of Alibaba Cloud.
Alibaba has seen the departure of several top AI specialists since last year, including Jia Yangqing, who headed Alibaba Cloud's computing platform division, who reportedly left the company early last year to join a startup specializing in AI infrastructure.
Nevertheless, Alibaba One of the most prolific investors China's future AI champions: Emerging data service ITJuzi.com says it has backed all the new AI giants, including Beijing-based Baichuan, Moonshot AI, Zhipu AI, and Shanghai-based MiniMax.
As 36Kr reported in May, Yang Hongxia, who worked in research and development for a master's in law at ByteDance, recently left the company to work on his own AI projects.
ByteDance's rivals Kuaishou TechnologyMeanwhile, Chinese media Lingtai reported in the same month that Fu Ruixi, who served as technical leader for the company's LLM project, had left the company to “prepare for an AI startup project.”
