Chinese AI Talent Tracker

Baidu AI Leadership Shift

• 🔥 He Jingzhou Rotates to MEG: Original large model algorithm department head He Jingzhou has rotated to Mobile...

Emerging trend of top Chinese AI talent leaving US labs with China return hints:

• Tian Yuandong's first domestic visit three months post-Meta exit
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Baidu's He Jingzhou, former head of the large model algorithm department, rotates to MEG as Baidu APP R&D Center organization lead, reporting to Group...

Major talent churn at xAI: Elite team (once 70% Chinese) fully collapsed in March 2026.

• High-profile exits: Three core Chinese co-founders resigned...

Senior undergrad's graduation project tops GitHub, landing 30M RMB investment from Chen Tianqiao just three months later. With BaiFu, he directs AI...

Key talent shift at Horizon Robotics: Chip head Chen Peng has departed, rumored to co-found a new company with the COO.

• Successor: Former “Red...

Leadership Hires

• 🔥 Xu Dong joins Quantiphi: Hong Kong University Professor Xu Dong appointed Chief Scientist at Quantiphi on March 13.
• Tan...

Rising trend: Chinese pros ditching secure roles for high-stakes AI ventures amid low entry barriers.

• Yuhao Xu, ex-Meta engineer (Zhejiang U, CMU),...

Trend alert: Major players ramp up high-profile AI hires amid talent frenzy.

• ByteDance recruits Alibaba Qwen post-training lead Yu Bowen as Seed...

Fudan NLP lab's MOSS team launches Moshi Intelligence in 2024, with renowned Prof. Qiu Xipeng as Chief Scientist—highlighting key academic-to-industry pivot leveraging ByteDance's Volcano Engine tools.

Signs of investor confidence in China-rooted AI startups:

• Ropedia by two Tsinghua alumni: Builds robot/spatial data infra with Google/Nvidia-linked...

Momentum building: Elite Chinese talent from big tech rapidly launches embodied AI ventures with instant VC backing.

• Ex-Huawei AI lab director 刘武龙...

Alibaba Qwen to ByteDance Moves

• 🔥 Yu Bowen Joins Seed: Original Alibaba Qwen post-training负责人郁博文 joined ByteDance Seed as visual model and...

• Major Move: Ex-Alibaba Qwen post-training head Yu Bowen joins ByteDance Seed as visual models & multimodal post-training lead.
• Restructuring...

杨立昆离Meta创办AMI Labs，获10.3亿美元种子轮，组建全明星团队，重点引进华人AI顶尖人才：

• 谢赛宁（Saining Xie），30多岁华人，FAIR4年+DeepMind研究科学家，DiT架构助OpenAI Sora，引用近10万，MIT35岁以下创新者，任首席科学官。
• 帕斯卡莱·冯（Pascale Fung），Meta前AI高级总监，香港科大教授，任首席研究与创新官。
  押注世界模型挑战LLM，瞄准医疗等高可靠性场景。华人人才海外创业新动向。

Academic-corporate pivot in embodied AI: Fudan Prof Chen Tao (ex-Huawei Singapore) joins serial entrepreneur Mu Zelan (ex-Muxin CEO) and ex-Intel...

顶尖华人AI学者谢赛宁加盟Yann LeCun创办的AMI Labs，任首席科学官。

• 背景：谢赛宁曾任Google DeepMind研究科学家、FAIR四年研究员，NYU助理教授，获多项奖项，引用9.8万次，其Diffusion Transformers成Sora基石。
• 公司：AMI Labs种子轮融资10.3亿美元（估值35亿），专注世界模型，理解真实世界。
• 意义：凸显北美高潜力初创对精英华人人才的强大吸引力。

• Wu Changzheng, Magic Atom's ex-technical president and core founder (ex-Xiaomi robot lead), resigned in Feb 2026 to launch personal venture, just...

魔法原子完成超5亿元A轮融资，启动百亿具身智能基金，马年春晚亮相后加速扩张。高管变动：

• 原总裁吴长征因理念分歧离职，已启动个人创业
• 联合创始人陈春玉续任CTO统筹研发
• 张涛出任具身模型负责人、算法VP
• 聘清华教授李翔为首席科学家，聚焦灵巧手
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Talent Shifts

• 🔥 Luo Fuli Joins Xiaomi: Former DeepSeek core researcher Luo Fuli announced joining Xiaomi's MiMo large model team to contribute...