{"id":907237,"date":"2025-02-19T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T05:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=907237"},"modified":"2025-02-19T11:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T05:30:08","slug":"googles-17-year-veteran-ai-researcher-joins-tiktok-parent-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/02\/19\/googles-17-year-veteran-ai-researcher-joins-tiktok-parent-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s 17-year veteran AI researcher joins TikTok-parent company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google researcher Wu Yonghui, a 17-year veteran at the tech company, has jumped ship to join TikTok-parent company ByteDance to help lead the company\u2019s efforts in the artificial intelligence (AI) race. Yonghui, a key figure in the development of Gemini AI models, has joined ByteDance in a senior leadership role, reporting directly to CEO Liang Rubo.<\/p>\n<p>Citing the two people with the knowledge, The Information reports that this marks a significant acquisition of AI talent for ByteDance, placing Wu among the company&#8217;s top executives, including TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google researcher Wu Yonghui, a 17-year veteran at the tech company, has jumped ship to join TikTok-parent company ByteDance to help lead the company\u2019s efforts in the artificial intelligence (AI) race. Yonghui, a key figure in the development of Gemini AI models, has joined ByteDance in a senior leadership role, reporting directly to CEO Liang Rubo. Citing the two people with the knowledge, The Information reports that this marks a significant acquisition of AI talent for ByteDance, placing Wu among the company&#8217;s top executives, including TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-907237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}