Another Key Figure from OpenAI: Tian Yonglong Suspected to Join Tencent's Horizon AI, Will Lead the Multi-modal Direction
Ex-OpenAI researcher Tian Yonglong joins Tencent to lead multimodal & vision-language model R&D at Hunyuan. Following Yao Shunyu, another ex-OpenAI talent joins Tencent Hunyuan, where they previously worked together. Yao joined in Sept 2025 as Chief AI Scientist, reporting to the president.....