Alibaba Group Holding has made a strategic move to enhance its artificial intelligence capabilities by recruiting Zhou Hao, a former research scientist at Google DeepMind, to become the head of post-training research for its Qwen AI team. This hiring follows an internal restructuring marked by the departure of technical lead Lin Junyang and the previous head of post-training research, Yu Bowen. Zhou Hao, who has an impressive background including a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, contributed significantly to notable AI products such as Gemini 3 and AI Mode at Google.