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892 Exclusive: Tencent Backs Former Alibaba Researcher’s New AI Lab

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Jing Yang @ The Information · 06/15/2026 05:35 EDT

Tencent Holdings has backed a new AI lab founded by Junyang Lin, former lead researcher of Alibaba Group’s Qwen models, according to two people with knowledge of the investment. Tencent invested $20 million in Lin’s first funding round that raised several hundred million dollars at a post-money ...

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