Tencent chief AI scientist Shunyu Yao: AI will soon master biology, plans fully autonomous AI labs
nlarusstone · x · 2026-11-09
Tencent's chief AI scientist and former OpenAI researcher Shunyu Yao said AI models will soon be powerful enough to master biology, and that Tencent plans to build AI science labs that operate completely autonomously, per SCMP. The quoting poster reacted skeptically.
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