Baidu Lingjing Matrix Upgraded to Wenxin Large Model Intelligent Agent Platform


After Sun Tianxiang assumed his position in July, Baidu Basic Model R&D Department has initiated a new round of organizational and technical restructuring around the Wenxin Large Model. Wei Haoran, former researcher at DeepSeek, joined with his team and was appointed as the head of Wenxin Multimodal Algorithm. Baidu continues to recruit core technology experts to strengthen large model development.
Baidu's Basic Model R&D Department (BMU) has completed key talent deployment: On September 3rd, the head Sun Tianxiang announced that senior researcher Wu Qin was recruited from a North American Frontier Lab to enhance the pre-training capabilities of the Wenxin Large Model; former DeepSeek researcher Wei Haoran has officially transferred to BMU as the head of Wenxin Multimodal Algorithm. His team previously open-sourced the Unlimited OCR model.
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Sun Tianxiang joins Baidu as head of Basic Model R&D, entering the Model Committee. Baidu has split its LLM R&D into Basic and Application Model departments, with the former focused on Wenxin foundation model breakthroughs, strengthening organizational and talent layout to accelerate tech iteration.....