According to 1M AI News monitoring, Tencent’s TEG (Technology Engineering Group) has restructured its organization, officially dissolving the AI Lab established in 2016. Tencent Group Vice President Jiang Jie no longer serves as Director of the AI Lab, while retaining all other management responsibilities. Some former AI Lab personnel have been reassigned to the Hunyuan team, reporting to Chief AI Scientist Yao Shunyu; the Industry-Academia-Research Collaboration Center remains intact; and the head of the Multimodal Department now reports to TEG President Lu Shan.
Yao Shunyu, born in 1997, was a researcher at OpenAI after graduating from Tsinghua University and joined Tencent in December 2025, reporting directly to President Liu Chiping. Tencent disclosed on its March 18 earnings call that Yao Shunyu’s HunYuan 3.0 has entered internal business testing and is expected to be released in April.
Over the past decade, the AI Lab has been led by Yao Xing, Zhang Tong, Zhang Zhengyou, Jiang Jie, and others, achieving landmark results in decision intelligence ("Juewu"), medical imaging ("Tencent Medical Imaging"), and protein structure prediction (tFold), with technologies now integrated into over a hundred Tencent products, including WeChat and QQ.
Tencent AI Lab Disbanded; Research Team Merges with Hunyuan Team
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The Tencent AI Lab has been officially dissolved as part of TEG’s restructuring, with key personnel integrated into the Hunyuan team led by Chief AI Scientist Yao Shunyu. Jiang Jie, former director of the AI Lab, is no longer in the position. Yao, who joined in December 2025, is overseeing internal testing of Hunyuan 3.0, scheduled for a Q1 launch. Previously led by Jiang Jie and others, the AI Lab contributed to decision intelligence, medical imaging, and over 100 Tencent products. Amid growing interest in AI and crypto, this shift reflects evolving research priorities. A potential token launch could follow if Hunyuan’s integration aligns with Tencent’s broader blockchain strategy.
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