This article reports the news that Hu Yunhua, a former researcher at Microsoft Research Asia and a senior technical expert at Alibaba DAMO Academy, has joined the large model Unicorn Zhipu as the person in charge of the C-end application "Zhipu Qingyan". This move marks an important step for Zhipu in terms of product leaders, and also brings new expectations for the future development of Zhipu Qingyan. Hu Yunhua’s rich technical background and entrepreneurial experience will help Zhipu Qingyan’s product strategy and user experience improvement. The article reviews Hu Yunhua’s career in detail and analyzes the market competition and challenges currently faced by Zhipu Qingyan.
According to intelligence news, recently, Hu Yunhua, a former researcher at Microsoft Research Asia, a senior technical expert at Alibaba Damo Academy, and chief data officer of Alipay China, joined the large model unicorn Zhipu as the person in charge of the C-end application "Zhipu Qingyan". The joining of Hu Yunhua marks a new chapter for Zhipu in terms of product leaders.
It is reported that Hu Yunhua has a very rich background. He entered Microsoft Research Asia as an intern in 2003 and officially became a researcher in 2007. In 2012, he joined Alibaba Damo Academy under the nickname "Wu Gou". During his two years at Alibaba, he was responsible for the construction of recommendation algorithms such as shopping intention mining and matching optimization. He is one of the most representative talents in Alimama's recommendation algorithm team.
In 2014, Hu Yunhua left Alibaba and turned to the training ground for AI entrepreneurship. In 2016, he founded "Smarter" and won four rounds of financing in more than a year, mainly focusing on e-commerce artificial intelligence shopping guide solutions.
Currently, Zhipu Qingyan has more than 25 million users and an estimated annual revenue of more than 10 million yuan. However, with the demise of many major manufacturers and the intensification of competition among conversational tool products, Zhipu Qingyan’s growth has passed the stage of customer acquisition driven by new technologies. The role of continuous integration of model functions in expanding user scale and improving retention is diminishing.
In this sense, Hu Yunhua’s experience in technology research and development in major companies and AI entrepreneurship can meet Zhipu’s expectations for the person in charge of C-end products. At present, how to define the product well, continuously increase the user scale and payment conversion is the test faced by Hu Yunhua, the new product coach.
According to AppGrowing statistics, Kimi and Doubao, which have outstanding growth performance, have also made great efforts in investment. The total investment from January to November 2024 exceeded 400 million yuan, which is nearly one higher than Zhipu Qingyan, which ranks sixth. order of magnitude.
The addition of Hu Yunhua may bring new changes and challenges. We will continue to pay attention to the development of Zhipu Qingyan and Hu Yunhua's performance.
All in all, Hu Yunhua’s joining has injected new vitality into Zhipu Qingyan, and its future development is worth looking forward to. In the face of fierce market competition, let us wait and see whether Zhipu Qingyan can achieve greater breakthroughs under the leadership of Hu Yunhua.