Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA) has become a prime target in China’s artificial intelligence (AI) talent war as rival tech giants poach senior experts from its Tongyi Lab, the developer of the widely used open-source Qwen models.
Top departures include Yan Zhijie, an early member of Alibaba’s Damo Academy and former head of Tongyi’s speech lab, who left in February and recently joined JD.com’s (NASDAQ:JD) Explore Academy after a brief stint at Tencent (OTC:TCEHY).
