Seven, the former Douyin product manager, joins the AI ​​company "Shenyan Technology" | Zhiyong Exclusive

Article | Zhou Xinyu Deng Yongyi

Editor | Su Jianxun Yang Xuan

36 Krypton learned from multiple independent sources that Seven (Wang Jingjin), the former Douyin product manager, recently joined the Tsinghua-based AI startup "Shenyan Technology".

Regarding the above information, Shenyan Technology told 36 Krypton that the news is true, "Seven is a very senior product expert and will be of great help to the direction of our entire product."

Founded in March 2022, Shenyan Technology is a relatively young company among the "Tsinghua-based" AI startups, but it still has talents and technical strength that cannot be underestimated.

In terms of talents, founder & CEO Qi Fanchao graduated from the Department of Computer Science and Technology. His main research direction is natural language processing (NLP). He has published more than 30 papers in top international journals such as ACL, EMNLP, and AAAI. Applied for nearly twenty invention patents.

At the technical level, Shenyan Technology’s focus is to build a Chinese information processing engine based on pre-trained models, and a number of products have been launched, such as “Meaning Description-Word Retrieval” which was a hot search topic in November 2021. "WantWords, a reverse dictionary, and WantQuotes, a sentence query tool later launched. Information disclosed by Shenyan Technology shows that the company has been officially in operation for more than two months, the number of product users has reached millions, and orders worth millions of yuan have been reached.

Many investors told 36Kr that Shenyan Technology has a relatively clear plan for the productization and commercialization of technology. This has also allowed Shenyan Technology to receive a lot of capital attention since its establishment.

Since its establishment, Shenyan Technology has completed three rounds of strategic financing, with investors including Sequoia Seed Fund, Qiji Chuangtan, and Lingyi Venture Capital. It has also been previously reported that Meituan Lianchuang Wang Huiwen's company "Light Years Away" has contacted Shenyan Technology many times, hoping to cooperate on technology. In Shenyan’s recently completed financing, Tencent and TAL appeared in the investment lineup.

Before joining ByteDance, Seven served as the general manager of Tencent News Products and the general manager of Baidu’s knowledge business system. After joining Douyin in September 2020, Seven served as the person in charge of Douyin's operations and local life business, and was once a potential candidate for the general person in charge of Douyin.

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Seven may also mean that Shenyan Technology will focus more on how to productize and commercialize technology.

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