The editor of Downcodes learned that Tan Xu, the former chief research manager of Microsoft Research Asia, joined the large model startup Dark Side of the Moon in August to focus on the development of end-to-end speech models. This move has attracted attention in the industry. Tan Xu’s rich experience and academic achievements will bring important technical improvements to Dark Side of the Moon. Its goal is to create a voice experience similar to GPT-4, which will undoubtedly have a profound impact on the field of voice AI. . As soon as the news came out, it quickly caused waves in the technology circle, and people speculated on how this would change the future of voice interaction.
According to media reports, Tan Xu, the former chief research manager of Microsoft Research Asia, joined the large model startup Dark Side of the Moon in August and is mainly responsible for the development of end-to-end speech models. After Tan Xu joined, one of his important goals was to create a GPT-4o-like voice experience for the company.
There has been no response from Dark Side of the Moon, but insiders have confirmed that Tan Xu has joined the company, and no specific rank information has been determined yet.
Public information shows that Tan Xu’s research fields are deep learning, language/speech/music processing and AI content generation. He has published more than 100 papers at AI academic conferences and published the academic monograph "Neural Speech Synthesis". His research results have attracted attention from the academic community and have been used in important Microsoft products, such as Azure, Bing, etc.
The addition of Tan Xu will undoubtedly bring strong technical strength to Dark Side of the Moon and accelerate its breakthrough in the field of voice AI. We look forward to seeing more surprising innovations from Dark Side of the Moon in the future. We look forward to Tan Xu and his team’s outstanding contributions in the field of speech modeling!