Meituan’s co-founder Wang Huiwen will return to the meals supply big as a part-time guide as he “steadily recovers his well being,” Wang Xing, chief govt of the corporate, introduced Tuesday in an inside memo. Wang Huiwen’s return, following well being points that pressured him to take a backseat at his AI enterprise Gentle 12 months, comes at a time when Meituan is shifting its focus to worldwide enlargement and technology-related operations. “Wang will assist us within the firm’s technique, expertise innovation, and new enterprise exploration along with his expertise and knowledge,” mentioned Wang Xing. Meituan purchased Wang Huiwen’s synthetic intelligence startup Gentle 12 months final June for $281 million, simply 4 months after the corporate’s former director established his AI enterprise to “construct OpenAI’s Chinese language model.” [Yicai, in Chinese]
