Former Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research Asia joins Dark Side of the Moon

Xu Tan, a former principal research manager at Microsoft Research Asia, has joined big-modeling startup Dark Side of the Moon in August, focusing on developing end-to-end speech models, according to an exclusive report from Late Auto. Dark Side of the Moon's entire multimodal research began in October 2023, the report noted. In the case of the video-generating big models that are getting a lot of attention in the market, a source close to Dark Side of the Moon said that Dark Side of the Moon currently has a team of about ten people working on video models, and that plans for an external release are still being postponed to ensure that the product is more differentiated. After Tan Xu joined Dark Side of the Moon, one of his main goals may be to help Dark Side of the Moon create a voice experience similar to GPT-4o.