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Tencent Folds Multimodal, LLM Teams Into New AI Unit

Published: Jul. 24, 2026  9:23 p.m.  GMT+8
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Yao Shunyu
Yao Shunyu

Tencent Holdings Ltd. has consolidated its multimodal and large-language-model teams into a new foundational-model department led by chief AI scientist Yao Shunyu.

The restructuring highlights the company’s push to streamline its artificial-intelligence research as competition intensifies in multimodal AI, an area where Tencent has yet to distinguish itself against rivals.

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