Baidu, Tencent, and Zhiyu AI Invest in Wulian Chip


Baidu's 2026 Spring Festival red envelope campaign invested 5 billion yuan, shifting focus to the Baidu APP's Wenxin Assistant, marking a strategic pivot to 'universal AI applications'. Leveraging holiday traffic, it successfully redirected users from traditional search to AI interactions, with AI feature experiences exceeding 50 million.....
Tencent strengthens AI talent by hiring Dr. Tianyu Pang, former senior research scientist at Sea AI Lab, as chief research scientist for its Hunyuan multimodal division, focusing on reinforcement learning to advance multimodal AI development.....
Tencent recruits AI talent, hiring Tsinghua PhD Pang Tianyu as Chief Research Scientist and head of multimodal reinforcement learning for its Hunyuan model team.....
Tencent Hunyuan launches Image 3.0, an 800B-parameter image-to-image model with a Mixture of Experts architecture, enabling intelligent, instruction-based image editing on Yuanbao Assistant and its official website.....
At Tencent's annual meeting, Ma Huateng announced that the AI application 'Yuanbao' will launch a cash distribution activity of 1 billion yuan during the Spring Festival on February 1st, with a maximum of 10,000 yuan per person, aiming to replicate the success of WeChat red envelopes. At the same time, Tencent revealed its previously confidential social AI project 'Yuanbao Party', officially integrating AI into its core social field. The project aims to create a multi-person social space with deep AI involvement, where AI can summarize group chats and take on roles such as fitness and reading companions.