Ex-Qwen RL Chief Zhu Tianhang Joins AI Agent Startup FRL

Zhu Tianhang, a founding member of Alibaba's Qwen AI team and its former reinforcement learning (RL) lead, has announced his presence on X (formerly Twitter).

He's now responsible for large model training at Fundamental Research Labs (FRL), a US-based AI agent startup that used to be called Altera. FRL makes Shortcut, an AI agent for Excel spreadsheets. Zhu has been at the lab for nearly a year and a half.

According to Zhu, he plans to open source and share his hands-on experience training large models for spreadsheets and finance during his time at FRL.

Earlier in his career, he also led RL training at 01.ai (Zero One), a Chinese AI startup.