Former OpenAI researcher Yonglong Tian has joined Tencent and may work on visual-language model (VLM) R&D, sources say. Tian previously worked with Yao Shunyu, a core member of Tencent’s Hunyuan team, during their time at OpenAI, and has a background

2026-07-08

Former OpenAI researcher Yonglong Tian has joined Tencent and may work on visual-language model (VLM) R&D, sources say. Tian previously worked with Yao Shunyu, a core member of Tencent’s Hunyuan team, during their time at OpenAI, and has a background in computer vision research.