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Yao Shunyu
Chief AI Scientist at Tencent at tencent-hunyuan
Former OpenAI researcher known for foundational AI agent work including ReAct and Tree of Thoughts. Appointed Tencent's Chief AI Scientist in 2025 to lead large language model development and AI infrastructure.
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Adam D'AngeloAlec RadfordAndrej KarpathyAngela JiangBarrett ZophBen MannBeth BarnesBrad LightcapCaitlin KalinowskiChris HallacyChristopher OlahDaniela AmodeiDanny HernandezDario AmodeiDavid LuanGreg BrockmanHyung Won ChungIan GoodfellowIlya SutskeverJack ClarkJakub PachockiJan LeikeJim FanJohn SchulmanKevin ScottKevin WeilLiam FedusLilian WengLogan KilpatrickMark ChenMira MuratiNick TurleyPerplexity Leadership - Aravind SrinivasPeter WelinderPieter AbbeelPrafulla DhariwalSam AltmanSarah FriarSrinivas NarayananWojciech Zaremba