By Chen Qiaohui / tr. by Phil Newell)

$BABA-SW (09988.HK) $Jin Rong, vice president and vice president of the Dharma Academy, resigned.

Tech Planet learned exclusively that Jin Rong, vice president of BABA and vice president of Dharma Academy, has left office recently.

According to the Dharma Institute's website, Jin Rong serves as the head of the Dharma Institute's machine intelligence research field and a doctor of computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. He was a tenured professor at Michigan State University, chairman of the NIPS and SIGIR meetings and a member of the KDD committee, and Career Award of the National Science Foundation of the United States. Long-term focus on statistical machine learning, focusing on big data analysis and its application in information retrieval, e-commerce and other fields.

In 2014, Jin Rong joined BABA in charge of BABA's iDST American R & D Center in Silicon Valley. It pays close attention to statistical machine learning for a long time, focusing on big data analysis and its application in information retrieval, e-commerce and other fields. The specific products developed include the "pat-Li-Tao" function in Mobile Taobao's App. Later, he served as the vice president of Dharma House, in charge of the field of machine intelligence research, known as "super brain".

The research field of machine intelligence of BABA Dharma Institute, which Jin Rong is responsible for, mainly focuses on the theory and application of cutting-edge technologies such as machine learning, helping retail, medical, judicial, transportation and other industries to improve efficiency. promote changes in the economy, space technology, automatic control, computer design and manufacturing.

In the field of machine intelligence research, there are five laboratories: speech, visual intelligence, language technology, decision-making intelligence and urban brain. Most of what these teams led by Jin Rong need to do is to improve BABA's business efficiency and hope to find new technology to create a new track and new business opportunities.

It is worth noting that Jinrong is another Daniel who resigned after Wang Gang, the head of the Dharma House, Autonomous driving lab, left office at the beginning of this year. It is also another case in which domestic technology bulls and scientists collectively run away from large factories.

People in the industry believe that they have left one after another mainly because the company overestimates the value of technology and underestimates the difficulty of technology landing, which makes the employment cost of these bulls out of proportion to their output. In addition, most of the domestic technology laboratories are responsible for their own profits and losses, but in fact, it is not easy to achieve self-financing, and so is Dharma House.

When Dharma was first established, Jack Ma said he wanted Dharma to be responsible for its own profits and losses, but according to BABA's Q4 financial report for 2021, innovative businesses and others, including businesses such as Tmall and Dharma, accounted for only 1 per cent of revenue.

This is mainly because the technology and products produced by Dharma House serve BABA's own ecology, and if we want to achieve real revenue growth, we still need to focus on the broader external market.

Yu Jianqiang, vice president of JD.com and head of the technical development department, resigned.

Tech Planet learned exclusively that following the departure of Zhou Bowen, JD.com 's "head of technology", Yu Jianqiang, vice president of JD.com and member of the Technical decision-making Committee, has also left office.

The data show that Yu Jianqiang has rich experience in technology industry. After graduating from university, he joined Baidu, Inc. as an engineer / technical manager, and then joined BABA as technical director. After that, he served as chief architect in Pea Pod and Perfect World, and finally, before joining JD.com, he served as chairman of the Technical VP and Technical Committee at 58. In 2019, he officially joined JD.com as vice president of JD.com, responsible for JD Logistics, Inc. 's product research and development.

Yu Jianqiang last made a public appearance at Huawei's "5G value creation Industry Summit Forum" on May 15, 2020, and gave a speech on the theme "5G ushering in a new era of intelligent supply chain". Declare in public: "5G provides the pillar of innovation transformation for logistics, and logistics is the best testing ground for 5G application."

"5G will take the lead in new infrastructure, catalyze industrial change, and the upgrading and fission of the supply chain industry are on the way," said Yu Jianqiang, vice president and head of the technology development department of JD.com Group. "under the background of the country's strategy of promoting new infrastructure technology, JD Logistics, Inc. combines his own technological advantages and industrial upgrading opportunities to fully release the potential of 5G and other high-quality infrastructure. Based on (LoMir) enigma intelligent logistics platform, join hands with all parties in society. Accelerate the landing of 5G intelligent logistics and the transformation and upgrading of the industry. "

Although Yu Jianqiang has left, the development direction and technical experience he left for JD Logistics, Inc. will continue to play a role, said one person close to JD.com.

Yu Jianqiang's resignation is the second major figure after the departure of "Zhou Bowen", the head of JD.com technology.

In December 2019, Liu Qiangdong announced the establishment of the group's technical committee, with Zhou Bowen as the chairman of the technical committee. And the committee will serve as the top management and decision-making body for JD.com 's technical line. Under the Technical Committee of JD.com Group, which is its chairman, there are also decision-making committees and executive committees.

The Technical decision-making Committee is composed of five members, namely Chairman Zhou Bowen, Vice Chairman Yan Weipeng and Cao Peng, members Yu Jianqiang and Li Dehao, and all five of them have the right to vote.

The establishment of the Technical Committee marks the overall transformation of JD.com to technology. Use technology to transform all the business models established in the first 12 years to create a world-leading intelligent business body, including smart business, smart finance, and intelligent insurance business.

With JD.com in retail, logistics, home and other business expansion, without technical support, in the future, JD.com may continue to invest in the construction of technology.

Mei Xiao, head of AI-lab Intelligent Voice Department, resigned.

Tech Planet has learned exclusively that Mei Xiao, head of the Byte Jump AI-lab intelligent voice department, has resigned.

According to public data, Mei Xiao has more than 10 years of experience in the field of speech synthesis, understanding the application of linguistics in this technology, and technical solutions to solve business problems.

After graduating from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mei Xiao worked as a senior researcher in Neuang, an authoritative supplier in the field of image and voice technology, and then joined Tencent in 2016 as a senior engineer, responsible for the development of the language library of speech synthesis. the evaluation of synthesis algorithms, etc., in business, Meixiao team as China and Taiwan to provide speech synthesis technical support for a number of businesses Among them are the timbre of Lv Bu, Liu Bei and Sun Shangxiang of Arena of Valor robot.

In 2018, Meixiao joined the byte beat. Mei Xiao is mainly in charge of industrial intelligence related data production and business strategy formulation in the byte AI-lab intelligent voice department, mainly in the direction of speech synthesis technology. The skill that he is good at is the linguistic application of speech synthesis technology.

The work of Meixiao team is mainly to provide low-level technical support for byte APP, including APP speech recognition, Douyin or clipping APP can automatically generate subtitle style in the video production process. The specific application scenarios of the products developed by the team include content creation and tool platform, intelligent hardware and human-computer interaction, language learning and so on.

Including Mei Xiao, this is the fourth technical bull that AI-lab laboratory has left in the past two years. Since 2020, Ma Weiying, vice president and director of the artificial intelligence laboratory, has left to join the Institute of Intelligent Industry at Tsinghua University. Li Lei, director of the byte jump artificial intelligence laboratory, left in August last year to join the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). In October of the same year, Wang Changhu, head of visual technology, left to join real estate developer Longhu.

In addition to bytes, in the general environment, there are also many technological bulls in head Internet enterprises. Some industry analysts believe that this reflects that technological innovation is gradually disappearing after eating a wave of market dividends. It can also be understood that technological innovation and application have entered a bottleneck period, superimposed factors of slowing down the expansion of major Internet companies, and the exploration of innovative business and new technologies has also entered a stagnant period. How to seek new breakthroughs for enterprises and technical personnel will become a topic for all families to think about at present.

Responsible editor: Deng Jian