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Meituan Hires Pan Xin For Multimodal AI
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Pan Xin, former CTO of Sharge and ex-vision lead at ByteDance, has joined Meituan to lead multimodal AI innovation and development of its LongCat model, sources told 36Kr in 2025. Meituan identified food delivery and AI as its 2025 priorities and is reallocating resources to train and optimize foundation models while accelerating AI-enabled apps and hiring across pretraining and applied AI roles.
Key Points
- 1Pan Xin joins Meituan to lead multimodal AI and LongCat model development.
- 2Signals Meituan's strategic emphasis on AI and foundation models amid intensified 2025 competition.
- 3Implies increased hiring in pretraining, applied AI, and commercialization across Meituan business units.
Scoring Rationale
Notable senior hire and intensified Meituan AI effort; limited novelty and primarily company-specific sourced reporting.
Sources
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