At the 2026 Tencent Cloud AI Industry Applications Conference in Beijing on Friday, June 5, Dowson Tong (汤道生), Senior Executive Vice President of Tencent and CEO of the Cloud and Smart Industries Group, hosted a fireside talk with Yao Shunyu (姚顺雨), Tencent’s 28-year-old Chief AI Scientist. Yao was formerly a scientific researcher at OpenAI, and his decision to join Tencent in December 2025 was widely discussed in China's AI circles.