According to Beating AI, Qiyin Wu, former principal engineer at Google DeepMind, has joined Baidu to lead large-scale model pre-training. She will continue to work in the United States after joining the company. She previously participated in the development of Gemini and was a core contributor to Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro.
She is very likely the researcher whose nickname "Wu Qin" was revealed earlier this month. At that time, Sun Tianxiang, head of Baidu BMU, internally announced the recruitment of a researcher from a Frontier Lab in North America. This person has participated in the development of several generations of large models over the past two years and will work with the team to enhance the pre-training capabilities of Wenxin.