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ZHAO Pengyu (赵鹏宇)

Executive Director and LLM Research Leader, MiniMax (June 2025)

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Executive Director and LLM Research Leader, MiniMax · Co-author MiniMax-01 technical report
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PKU BS+MS CS (2017, 2020)
Ex-Hulu Beijing 2020-23
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ZHAO Pengyu (赵鹏宇, born ~1995, aged 29 in 2025) is the Executive Director and Large Language Model Research Leader at MiniMax. He joined MiniMax in August 2023 as an NLP researcher and engineer.

He holds a B.S. (2017) and M.S. (2020) in Computer Science from Peking University. Before joining MiniMax, he worked at Beijing Hulu Technology as a research software development engineer focusing on recommendation algorithms (August 2020 - July 2023).

He was appointed Executive Director in June 2025 and leads MiniMax's LLM research and engineering efforts. He is also a co-author of MiniMax's MiniMax-01 technical report.

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Executive Director and LLM Research Leader, MiniMaxCo-author MiniMax-01 technical report
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Peking University
M.S. in Computer Science · 2020
Peking University
B.S. in Computer Science · 2017
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