Exclusive | AI unicorn Lingyiwanwu sees new round of senior management changes to deepen its ToB strategy

Exclusive news from "Career Bonus" reveals that Lingyi Wanwu, one of the "Six AI Dragons," is experiencing a wave of intensive senior management changes: Shen Pengfei, the former deputy general manager of Baidu Smart Cloud's China region, joined the company as a co-founder after Lingyi Wanwu's transformation this year. He is responsible for Lingyi Wanwu's ToB and ToG business development and sales system. Two early core members of the company, Zhao Binqiang and Dr. Ning Ning, have been promoted to vice presidents. The three newly appointed core managers jointly cover three major directions: marketing and sales, models and technology, and international and consulting, driving Lingyi Wanwu's "top - leader project."

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Shen Pengfei has over 26 years of experience in the IT and Internet industries. He graduated with a master's degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University. He joined Baidu in 2017 and has been deeply involved in Baidu's ToB and ToG fields for 8 years. During this period, he served as the person - in - charge of multiple core businesses, including deputy general manager of Baidu Smart Cloud's China region, general manager of Baidu Smart Cloud's GTM region, deputy general manager of Baidu Security, general manager of ARM Cloud, and general manager of the Internet of Things business operation. He has solid technical accumulation and keen market insight in fields such as full - stack AI technology, cloud computing, big data processing, security, and IT software and hardware architecture.

Shen Pengfei has extensive government and enterprise connections. He also has practical experience in leading a team of hundreds of people to successfully sign and deliver ultra - large - scale projects worth over 6 billion yuan. Before joining Baidu, Shen Pengfei founded Yicaiwang, which received investments from many well - known institutions such as Plum Ventures and Mingshi Ventures.

Shen Pengfei is also another "Baidu - affiliated" senior executive at Lingyi Wanwu. In 2023, Ma Jie, the former vice president of Baidu, joined Lingyi Wanwu, responsible for the industrial application products and related businesses of large models. Before founding Yicaiwang, Shen Pengfei served as COO and rotating CEO at "Anquanbao," founded by Ma Jie. After two years, the two are partnering again to drive the implementation and development of Lingyi Wanwu's domestic and international ToB businesses.

Zhao Binqiang graduated from Tsinghua University. He was a senior algorithm expert at Alibaba and the person - in - charge of the algorithm at Taoxi Technology Department. He has 17 years of experience in the Internet algorithm and AI fields. He joined Lingyi Wanwu in 2023 and led the data engineering and full - link training pipeline of the self - developed model. Currently, Zhao Binqiang is responsible for the company's model algorithms and Agent innovation R & D, as well as the productivity products for overseas professional users, providing technical support and project delivery for the company's strategic ToB business.

Dr. Ning Ning graduated from the School of Engineering of the National University of Singapore. He joined Lingyi Wanwu in early 2024 and is currently responsible for Lingyi Wanwu's international market development and the consulting and implementation of enterprise - level and national - level AI transformation. During his tenure at Lingyi Wanwu, Ning Ning promoted the implementation of multiple international projects with lighthouse significance and high - complexity technical content, including the construction of national - level sovereign models in "Belt and Road" countries and the AI 2.0 transformation of multinational enterprises. He has been entrusted to serve as the chief AI officer of strategic customers multiple times, reporting directly to the customer's CEO and helping customers achieve AI - driven business growth and organizational change.

In March this year, after Lingyi Wanwu's business adjustment and focus, the company's strategy shifted to "All in ToB," driving the "top - leader project" both domestically and internationally. Li Kaifu, the CEO of Lingyi Wanwu, has always emphasized that for the digital and intelligent transformation of enterprise AI, the CEO must personally participate in strategic design, find application scenarios, build applications, and deeply embed AI into the core business process to truly achieve value delivery.

It is worth mentioning that in August this year, Kazakhstan jointly released the Kazakh - language artificial intelligence model AlemLLM with Lingyi Wanwu. In October, Tokayev, the President of Kazakhstan, met with Li Kaifu, expressing the hope to deepen cooperation on artificial intelligence language models.

"Career Bonus" has learned that Lingyi Wanwu is also actively recruiting top - notch international AI consulting and solution delivery teams to further enhance its international business competitiveness.

Recently, there were reports that the dark side of the moon of the Six AI Dragons is about to complete a financing of hundreds of millions of dollars. According to "Leifeng.com," a new overseas investment institution has injected capital into it. A month ago, MiniMax was reported to have completed a financing of 300 million US dollars.

Amid the previous trend of AI talents leaving startups and returning to large companies, Lingyi Wanwu has defied the trend and welcomed the addition of new senior executives.

As the end of the year approaches, the "Six AI Dragons" are "reporting good news frequently." While boosting industry confidence, it also points to the next direction of generative AI - overseas expansion and commercial application.

Author | Chen Jiahui

Editor | Chen Tong

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