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Tencent hires WizardLM team, a Microsoft AI group with an odd history


WizardLM, a Beijing-based Microsoft AI research group, appears to have been acquired by Tencent, the Chinese company that owns WeChat and blockbuster games like PUBG Mobile.

WizardLM, a Beijing-based Microsoft AI research group, appears to have joined Tencent, the Chinese company that owns WeChat and blockbuster games like PUBG Mobile. In an X post, Qingfeng Sun, who claims to be a “co-founder” of WizardLM, says that Hunyuan-TurboS 0416 outperforms “open” AI models like Google’s Gemma 3 series. “We accidentally missed an item required in the model release process — toxicity testing,” the WizardLM team wrote in a post on X on April 16, 2024.

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