Citing multiple independent sources, Intelligent Surge reported today that the originalMeituan (Japanese company)Co-Founder, Founder of Light Years AwaySibelle Wong (1958-), Taiwanese singer and actressNow that it has returned.Explore with the USG Leadership Team AI Applications.. Huiwen Wang's AI team at Meituan is known as the GN06. The team's current main business directions include emotional companionship and chatbots.
A source close to Mission said GN06 is under the direct supervision of Wang Huiwen, theDoes not belong to any business groupGN06 has a relatively independent status in Meituan, focusing on exploring directions outside of its main business, and is also independent of Meituan's existing big modeling team and the AI teams in each business line.
Meituan went live with its AI emotional companion product Wow in November 2023. Wow is the first standalone AI app released by Meituan, which allows users to freely customize the character's image, personality, and timbre to interact in an AI community. The product is reportedly from GN06.
Another source said it is clear that there has been a rapid increase in hiring demand for GN06 since this summer. However.Now Wow is focusing on going overseas and betting on the North American market.
As a college classmate of Wang Xing, founder of Meituan, Wang Huiwen joined Meituan on December 18, 2010 and worked with Wang Xing for ten years before retiring from Meituan in January 2020 and founding AGI (General Artificial Intelligence) company "Beyond the Light Years" in 2018.
In June 2023, Wang Huiwen applied for resignation as a director of Meituan for "personal health reasons". Sources familiar with the matter said at the time that Wang Huiwen had temporarily left her job and was in the hospital, the exact cause of her illness was not known.
In the same month, Meituan announced the acquisition of Wang Huiwen's interest in 100% "Light Years Away" at a cost of approximately RMB 2.065 billion.
In August 2023, Guangnian Beyond completed the industrial and commercial changes and Wang Huiwen withdrew his shares.
Meituan CEO Wang Xing released an internal email in April this year, saying that the original co-founder of Meituan, Wang Huiwen, is gradually recovering his health and will spend part of his time assuming the position of advisor to Meituan.