Tao Mei

Tao Mei is the founder and CEO of Hidream.ai, a multimodal AI startup he launched after five years at JD.com, where he served as vice president and deputy director of the JD Exploration Research Institute, overseeing AI business and industrial落地 . In a 2024 暗涌Waves interview, he described Hidream.ai's approach as building vertical-domain models rather than general-purpose ones, with the company developing both models and applications to avoid being "击穿" by model-layer competitors . By mid-2026, he was publicly presenting Hidream.ai's technical architecture at WAIC, framing its agent system around a "memory逐层变轻，定稿逐层上浮" design meant to mirror how human creators work . His trajectory reflects a deliberate shift from pure research toward commercialization, shaped by his conclusion at JD that "技术领先不等于商业成功" .