Meituan’s former co-founder Wang Huiwen returns to lead the GN06 team to explore AI applications, attracting industry attention. The GN06 team is independent of Meituan’s various business groups, focusing on cutting-edge exploration in the AI fields such as emotional companionship and chat robots, and is committed to providing candidates with broad AI practice opportunities. Its independently developed AI emotional companion product Wow was launched in November 2023. Users can customize roles and interact in the AI community, marking Meituan's active layout in the field of AI applications.
According to the emergence of intelligence, Wang Huiwen, the former co-founder of Meituan, recently announced his return and led the team to explore AI applications. The Meituan AI team where Wang Huiwen is located is called GN06. Its current main business directions include emotional companionship, chat robots, etc. The team provides candidates with “an opportunity to try AI without boundaries”.
It is understood that GN06 is directly managed by Wang Huiwen and does not belong to any business group. GN06 is relatively independent in Meituan, focusing on exploring directions beyond its main business.
One of GN06's main products is Wow, an AI emotional companion product launched in November 2023. Wow is the first independent AI application released by Meituan. Users can freely customize their character image, personality and tone to interact in the AI community.
At present, the recruitment demand for GN06 has increased significantly. The recruitment requirements cover front-end, client, back-end, products, operations, business division, etc. Many positions require the cognition and work background of overseas AI products.
Meituan's actions in AI applications are quite active, and a new AI application "Miscellaneous Brush" was launched at the end of October. This is an AI image generation application - users can choose image templates they are interested in on the platform, such as Minions, Block World, various IP dolls, etc., and then upload portraits or item images to generate a brand new one AI images.
Wang Huiwen's exploration and interest in AI has begun since the outbreak of ChatGPT in 2023. In 2023, Wang Huiwen was established as "Light Years Away", and is also the first top Internet talents in China to announce their end to start a business in the field of big models.
Now, Wang Huiwen has officially returned to Meituan and led the team to explore AI applications. Wang Huiwen's return is another big move by Meituan in the field of AI, and also marks Meituan's further exploration and innovation in AI applications.
Wang Huiwen's return and the active exploration of the GN06 team indicate that Meituan will continue to make efforts in the AI field and bring more innovative AI applications to users. In the future, Meituan’s layout in the AI field is worth looking forward to.