[Tencent Continues Aggressively Recruiting Top AI Talent: xAI Multimodal Lead Joins Hunyuan] Beating AI Newsflash: Lin Xudong, the head of multimodal understanding at xAI, has reportedly joined Tencent Hunyuan. Lin Xudong previously participated in the development of the Gemini multimodal model at Google DeepMind and later joined xAI, where he was responsible for multimodal understanding. This marks the third key researcher Tencent has recruited from major international tech companies within a year. Yao Shunyu has already taken on the role of Tencent's Chief AI Scientist, and former OpenAI researcher Tian Yonglong joined in July to work on visual-language model development. [Original Link]