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Alibaba Hires Ex-Google Scientist to Boost AI Research

3/5/2026

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Alibaba Group hired Zhou Hao, a former Google DeepMind research scientist, to lead post-training research for Qwen.
The move follows the departures of Lin Junyang and Yu Bowen.
Zhou Hao holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and contributed to Google's Gemini 3.
Alibaba has intensified monetization efforts, launching the Qwen app in November and merging its AI units.
The company did not comment on these changes.

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Alibaba Group hired Zhou Hao, a former Google DeepMind research scientist, to lead post-training research for Qwen.
The move follows the departures of Lin Junyang and Yu Bowen.
Zhou Hao holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and contributed to Google's Gemini 3.
Alibaba has intensified monetization efforts, launching the Qwen app in November and merging its AI units.
The company did not comment on these changes.