Former Alibaba scientist Yang Hongxia is at the forefront of an effort to evolve AI beyond DeepSeek's breakthroughs. — SCMP
A renowned professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), and a former artificial intelligence (AI) scientist at Chinese tech giants ByteDance and Alibaba Group Holding, is trying to work with experts across different fields to develop “affordable” domain-specific models.
Yang Hongxia, who joined PolyU’s Department of Computing last year after decades in the technology industry, is at the forefront of an effort to use the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in specialised applications. Her efforts come as Chinese companies, spurred by the success of start-up DeepSeek, move to open-source their AI models, giving greater access to the tech.
