Tencent Acquires Microsoft’s WizardLM AI Team

Tencent hires Microsoft’s WizardLM team to boost Hunyuan AI, rivaling Google’s Gemma 3. Discover what it means for the AI race in 2025.
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Tencent Acquires Microsoft’s WizardLM AI Team
Tencent Hires Microsoft’s WizardLM AI Team: What This Means for the Future of AI Why did Tencent hire the WizardLM team from Microsoft? What is WizardLM, and how does this impact the AI arms race in 2025? If you’re searching for answers, here’s what you need to know. In a significant move within the artificial intelligence sector, Tencent has brought on board the core team behind WizardLM — an AI research group previously housed at Microsoft. This strategic hire reflects Tencent’s growing ambition in generative AI and underscores China's accelerating push to compete with global leaders like OpenAI and Google in the development of advanced AI models.                 Image Credits:Yuichiro Chino / Getty Images The WizardLM group, based in Beijing, had quietly been making waves within Microsoft's AI research division. Known for developing powerful large language models ( LLMs), WizardLM gained attention for its WizardLM- 2 models, which were said to rival OpenAI’s GPT- 4 in capability. …