独家丨vivo OS部门新成立AI领域，施玉坚兼管互联网平台运营领域

Core Viewpoint - Vivo is actively transforming its organizational structure to enhance its focus on artificial intelligence (AI), reflecting a significant investment in the AI sector exceeding 23 billion yuan [2][3]. Group 1: Organizational Changes - Vivo has restructured its organization by establishing a dedicated AI sector, incorporating two AI departments under the OS product area, with Zhang Fei appointed as the general manager of the AI sector [2]. - The previous general manager of the AI department, Xiao Fangxu, has not been assigned a new role, indicating a potential shift in leadership focus [2]. - Senior Vice President Shi Yujian will now oversee the internet platform operations, with a reorganization of responsibilities leading to the creation of a new business strategy department [2]. Group 2: Investment in AI - Vivo invests 2 to 3 billion yuan annually in large model research, with total investments in AI exceeding 23 billion yuan by October 2024 [2]. - The number of researchers in Vivo's AI research institute has doubled from 1,000 in 2019 to over 2,000, making it one of the highest disclosing mobile manufacturers in AI investment [2]. Group 3: AI Model Development - Despite significant investment, internal discussions revealed that the progress in AI model development has been slow, leading to a temporary halt in commercial assessments and funding [3]. - Vivo's focus is shifting towards edge computing for its large model training, while the cloud-based 70 billion parameter language model is still undergoing fine-tuning and optimization [3]. - Vivo officially announced the launch of the full version of DeepSeek-R1, which will support various AI functionalities, including image generation and AI text creation [3].