Tencent Folds AI Lab Into Hunyuan Team in Major AI Overhaul

Tencent Holdings Ltd. is dismantling its once-prominent AI Lab and folding the unit into its Hunyuan large-model team, a sweeping consolidation aimed at sharpening the company’s focus in an intensifying artificial intelligence race.

According to an internal company notice issued Friday, Tencent will disband the AI Lab established in 2016, retaining only its industry-academia collaboration center. Some personnel will be transferred to the Hunyuan large-model team under Chief AI Scientist Yao Shunyu, while the head of the multimodal department will report to Technology and Engineering Group President Lu Shan. Tencent Vice President Jiang Jie will no longer oversee the lab.