After Zhang Wenduo left, Zhao Wenyuan interviewed three more people in succession.
One worked on long-context memory, one on reinforcement learning, and one on multimodal representation.
Their overall caliber was pretty good.
After all, every résumé that reached his desk had already been screened remotely by Liu Yu and HR. Talent was expensive in the AI industry these days, and Source Intelligence was riding high. Plenty of people were applying, but very few actually made the institute's shortlist.
Still, once the interviews were over, Zhao Wenyuan set Zhang Wenduo's résumé aside.
The man was a little odd, but he certainly stood out.
At noon, Zhao Wenyuan grabbed a rice ball from the convenience store downstairs. He had just returned to his office when He Yunshen called.
"President Zhao, are you free this afternoon?"
Zhao Wenyuan glanced at his schedule.
He had two more candidates scheduled for the afternoon, one at three and another at four thirty.
"Is something up, Mr. He?"
"The team working on Inter-Die Interconnects that I mentioned last time," He Yunshen said. "They're free this afternoon. Want to go take a look?"
Zhao Wenyuan immediately focused.
Sorry, but I'll have to cancel this afternoon's interviews at the last minute.
"Sure, Mr. He. What time this afternoon? Where?" Zhao Wenyuan immediately said. "I'm free."
"Then I'll pick you up downstairs in half an hour."
"Sorry for the trouble, Mr. He."
After hanging up, Zhao Wenyuan messaged Liu Yu about the visit with He Yunshen and asked him to reschedule all the afternoon interviews.
Liu Yu quickly replied, "Rescheduled. Would you like me to accompany you this afternoon?"
Zhao Wenyuan hesitated as he read that.
Of course he knew having Liu Yu along would be the safer option.
But Liu Yu had already handled a pile of office chores