Two months after leaving Ali, linjunmin, the former head of Qianwen, was exposed to have started a business.
On May 13, according to the report of intelligence emergence under 36 krypton, Lin Junmin recently started his business, including world model and embodied brain. At present, linjunmin has recruited several members from byte, Tencent and overseas backgrounds, and started financing with a valuation of about US $2billion (about 13.6 billion yuan). The contact funds include Sequoia China, Gaorong venture capital, etc.
Some analysts believe that Lin Junmin started his own business this time. In the case of no revenue and no products, he was valued at 10 billion yuan purely by his team and entrepreneurial direction. This is very rare in China, reflecting the capital’s extreme optimism about China’s top AI talents.
On March 4, linjunmin publicly announced his resignation from Qianwen on social media. On the same day, Yu Bowen, the head of Qianwen post training, and Li Kaixin, the core contributor of Qianwen 3.5/vl/coder, also revealed their resignation.
Wuyongming, CEO of Alibaba group, responded in an internal email on March 5 that the company had decided to approve Lin Junmin’s resignation and thanked Lin Junmin for his past efforts in his post. Alibaba cloud CTO and zhoujingren, head of Tongyi laboratory, continue to lead Tongyi laboratory to promote follow-up work. At the same time, the company will set up a basic model support group to coordinate the group’s resources to support the construction of basic models. ”The
According to Alibaba insiders, Lin Junmin’s resignation is related to the overall strategic transformation of Qianwen. The company believes that it needs to attract more technical talents, which to some extent involves the adjustment of Lin Junmin’s original scope of authority and responsibility. After several rounds of communication, Lin Junmin chose not to accept, so he took the initiative to resign.
In response to the discussions on the collective resignation of the core team of Qianwen model and the “adjustment of open source strategy”, Alibaba group said in the evening of March 5 that at present, the Qianwen model team is stable, there is no “collective resignation”, and all products and services operate normally. Qianwen will adhere to the open source strategy. The basic model team has never been set with commercial KPIs such as dau. The goal of qwen big model is to continuously pursue the upper limit of model intelligence and achieve AgI.
Taking advantage of the change of team members, Google “shouted across the air” to dig people. On the afternoon of March 5, Omar sanseviero, the relevant head of Google deepmind development team, shouted to the Qianwen team on the social platform: “if you want to find a new place to build excellent models and make contributions to the open model ecosystem, please contact us! There are many exciting contents on our development roadmap, and there is still a lot of work to be done in the future.”
After his resignation, linjunmin did not immediately disclose his entrepreneurial plan, but continued to study technology. On March 26, he released his first long article after leaving office on the social platform, sharing his technical thinking, focusing on the development of large model technology and predicting the next stage of AI. According to his judgment, “agent thinking” is the core direction of AI in the next stage. The model is no longer limited to internal static reasoning, thinking for action, and continuously updating the plan according to the feedback from the world in the process of interacting with the environment.
According to public data, linjunmin was born in 1993 and graduated from the school of foreign languages of Peking University with a master’s degree. In 2019, he joined the alidamo Institute as a senior algorithm engineer. In 2020, the “Tongyi Qianwen” project was officially approved. As a core architect, linjunmin led the research and development of multimodal basic frameworks such as ofa and Chinese clip. In 2022, he was formally appointed as the technical director of Tongyi Qianwen series large model.
During his tenure as the technical director of Tongyi Qianwen, linjunmin led the team to achieve a series of achievements and became the youngest P10 technical expert in Alibaba. In April, 2023, he promoted the official release of Tongyi Qianwen large model, and its architecture integrated the previously accumulated multimodal technology achievements. In August, 2024, after Zhou Chang, the former head of Tongyi Qianwen, resigned, Lin Junmin was fully responsible for qwen’s full stack R & D and open source strategy, and launched versions with different parameter sizes, such as 7b, 14b and 72B. By the time he left office, the global download volume of qwen series had exceeded 600million times, and the number of derivative models exceeded 200000.
This time linjunmin started his business, which attracted a lot of attention. As a “technological bull”, it remains to be seen whether he can transform into a successful entrepreneur and enterprise manager.
