Wu Yonghui, the famous “Google Fellow” who worked for the US Tech giant for 17 years, recently joined us Tiktok Owner bytedance Leading basic research Artificial Intelligence (AI)Because the company is “to explore the intelligence limit.”
Wu currently works at Bytedance’s Seed Department. It works for a Beijing-based company that began in early 2023 after Openai’s ChatGPT attracted widespread interest in its large-scale language model. Generation AI. The San Jose, California-based WU reports directly to CEO Liang Rubo, according to two people familiar with the issue.
Wu has been appointed head of Seed’s basic research, one of the people said.
Bytedance did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.
Wu joined Google in 2008 as a software engineer. Between 2014 and 2023 he was with Google Brain. GoogleBrain is the company’s research team working in a variety of fields, including machine learning, genomics, and understanding natural language.
In September 2023, he was promoted to Google Fellow. Google Fellows are senior-level positions in the company’s engineering track and are the equivalent of the Vice President of Manager. WU’s final job at Google was Vice President of Research at Tech Giant’s AI Research Labe Deepmind, according to his LinkedIn profile.
