According to the latest news from Tech Planet, Yan Zhijie, head of the voice team of Alibaba Tongyi Laboratory, officially resigned on February 15. Yan Zhijie's rank at Alibaba is P10 and is a high-level technical expert within the company. His departure has attracted widespread attention from the industry, especially in the fields of artificial intelligence and voice technology.
Yan Zhijie is a top expert in the field of intelligent voice and has rich academic and industry experience. In 2003, he entered the Phonetics Laboratory of the University of Science and Technology of China to pursue his doctorate degree and studied under Professor Wang Renhua, founder of iFLYTEK. After receiving his PhD in 2008, he joined the voice group of Microsoft Research Asia and served as a chief researcher, focusing on the research of cutting-edge technologies such as speech recognition and speech synthesis. During this period, he published several top academic papers and applied for multiple patents, establishing his authoritative position in the field of voice technology.
In 2015, Yan Zhijie joined Alibaba as the director of IDST's intelligent voice interaction team. In 2017, he became the head of the Machine Intelligent Voice Laboratory of the DAMO Academy and became one of the 13 initial core members of the DAMO Academy. The DAMO Academy is a cutting-edge science and technology research institution under Alibaba Group, committed to promoting innovation in fields such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing. In 2023, with the rise of big model technology, Yan Zhijie led the development of Alibaba's first public beta big model application "Tongyi Tingwu", an AI assistant focusing on audio and video content processing, further promoting Alibaba's layout in the field of voice technology.
At present, Yan Zhijie's next step is not yet clear, but the industry generally speculates that he may devote himself to the AI entrepreneurship tide. As a senior expert in the field of voice technology, his resignation will undoubtedly have a certain impact on Alibaba's voice technology research and development, and at the same time bring new expectations to the industry. In the future, whether Yan Zhijie will open a new chapter in the field of AI entrepreneurship is worthy of continuous attention.