Post-90s leaders take over China's LLM race: Qwen, MiMo, Tencent, ByteDance
In September 2026 Alibaba confirmed Liu Dayiheng (b. 1993) as head of the ATH group's TokenFoundry Qwen large-language-model project ahead of its Yunqi conference, and Chen Yusen (b. 1992) appeared as an Alibaba group vice president and CEO of the Qwen Office unit. The same day Xiaomi released the MiMo-V2.6 series and promoted Luo Fuli (b. 1995) to level 22, the top of Xiaomi's job ladder; her MiMo-V2.6-Pro scored 46 on Artificial Analysis's composite intelligence index, which the article says makes it the top open-weight model on that list. It also describes Zhou Chang running ByteDance's Seedream, Seedance and world-model work and Yao Shunyu heading both AI Infra and the LLM department at Tencent since December 2025, arguing the job handover is complete while capability, commercialization and cost tests are only beginning.
The generational handover puts China's frontier LLM, multimodal and agent efforts under younger leaders — along with the unresolved problems of capability ceilings, compute cost and commercialization.
2026年9月，国产大模型公司密集交出了一份成绩单。
9月21日，阿里巴巴在云栖大会开幕前一天确认，1993年出生的刘大一恒担任ATH事业群TokenFoundry Qwen大语言模型项目负责人，主论坛演讲排序仅在阿里集团主席蔡崇信、CEO吴泳铭之后。
9月22日，同一场大会上，1992年出生的陈宇森以阿里巴巴集团副总裁、千问办公CEO身份首次公开亮相。
此前，他从长亭科技创始人变成钉钉CEO，再变成千问办公事业部负责人，职级从P10升到P11（M6）。
同一天，小米也在这天发布MiMo-V2.6系列，同时内部晋升名单传出：1995年出生的罗福莉升到22级，小米职级体系的最高点。她负责的MiMo-V2.6-Pro在Artificial Analysis综合智能指数拿到46分，成为该榜单全球开源权重模型第一。
另一端，1990年出生的周畅从阿里离开后，加入字节，负责着Seedream、Seedance和世界模型。
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