Tao (Thomas) Yu earned his B.S. in Computer Science from Zhejiang University, and his M.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and completed the Artificial Intelligence graduate program at Stanford University. Early in his career, he was a core member of Google Bard (now Gemini), leading research and engineering efforts across projects—from BERT and LaMDA to large-scale models powering personal assistants and AI agents. He later joined Meituan as Senior Technical Director of the AI Platform, where he also chaired the Technical Committee and led the Large Model Platform, architecting the company’s enterprise-level large language model ecosystem. Additionally, he co-founded 01.AI and spearheaded post-training and reinforcement learning for large language models. He was recognized in the Forbes China’s 2021 30 Under 30 Technology list.