Former Baidu VP Wu Tian joins Sany Group as Dean of Yun AI Institute

In early November, former Baidu Group Vice President and Baidu Research Vice President Wu Tian officially joined Sany Group as Group Vice President, Dean of the Yun AI Institute, and concurrently Dean of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute. Previously, in October, former Chery Automobile Vice President Xie Baojun had also joined the Sany system. The article states that Sany designated 2025 as its "first year of intelligence," seeking to make AI a general capability across all roles. Vice President Li Hongwei said Sany will develop into an AI-native robotics company in the future, but currently unmanned operations still rely mainly on rule-based algorithms rather than being data-driven.