Alibaba recruits Google DeepMind contributor to join Qwen AI team, sources say
South China Morning Post • 3/4/2026
Summary
Alibaba Group Holding has recruited a research scientist from Google DeepMind to enhance its Qwen artificial intelligence models. This move is part of an internal restructuring that included the departure of previous technical lead Lin Junyang. Zhou Hao, a former senior staff research scientist at Google, will join Alibaba as head of post-training research, replacing Yu Bowen, who also left this week. No successor for Lin Junyang has been announced.
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