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introduction： 去年王慧文创立“光年之外”切入大模型赛道，因身体原因在创业4个月后将公司出售给美团。

** Author| ** First Finance and Economics Lu Hanzhi

On April 2, Meituan CEO Wang Xing released an internal email saying that Wang Huiwen is gradually recovering and will spend part of his time as Meituan's consultant. Insiders revealed that after nearly a year of treatment, Wang Huiwen's recent condition is relatively stable, but he has not fully recovered. Doctors believe that the short-term resumption of some regular low-stress work is conducive to recovery. Therefore, choose the way of consultant and participate in the work part of the time. "Lao Wang will use his experience and wisdom to support me and you in the company's strategy, culture and talent echelon construction, as well as scientific and technological innovation and new business exploration," Wang said in an email. " Wang Xing said that "Lao Wang is welcome to continue to fight side by side with us" and wished Wang Huiwen an early and full recovery. Wang Xing and Wang Huiwen are students of the upper and lower berths of Tsinghua University. They started a business together and founded Xiaonei and Meituan. On December 18, 2020, Meituan released an internal letter announcing that Wang Huiwen, co-founder and senior vice president of Meituan, had successfully handed over the baton and officially retired as planned. As for the reasons for leaving, Wang Huiwen once said in an internal letter, "all along, I have not been able to properly handle the relationship between work, family and health." it is also difficult to deal with the relationship between concentration and diligence required by business operation and personal scattered and unstable interests; the pain of having to manage without loving management is also increasing day by day. I have also been worried that life is dominated by inertia, idling in the familiar environment and missing out on different highlights. " After leaving office, Wang Huiwen continued to serve as a director of Meituan, a lifelong honorary adviser to Meituan and a special lecturer at Internet + University, engaged in the company's strategic planning, organizational inheritance and talent development. On June 25 last year, Meituan announced that Wang Huiwen had resigned as a non-executive director of the company due to health reasons. After retiring and starting a new business, Wang Huiwen still has a close relationship with Meituan. In 2023, when the big model was hot, Wang Huiwen founded a "light-year away" company to cut into the big model track and sold the company to Meituan four months after starting up for health reasons. On February 13 last year, Wang Huiwen said that he would form a team to embrace the new era, build China's OpenAI, and set up Beijing Lightyear Technology Co., Ltd., with an investment of 50 million US dollars. In less than a month, Wang Xing posted on moments that he would participate in the A-round investment of Wang Huiwen's start-up company "light-year away" and become a director. Later, Wang Huiwen chose to sell light-year away to Meituan for health reasons. Meituan announced on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on June 29 last year that it had completed the acquisition of 100 per cent equity stakes in domestic and foreign entities light-years away at a price of about 2.065 billion yuan. Meituan said that after the completion of the merger and acquisition, the Lightyear team will continue to explore and research in the field of large models.

Wang Huiwen's return this time is also in the adjustment stage of Meituan. In February this year, Wang Xing released an internal email announcing the new organizational structure adjustment. Meituan has integrated a number of core local business-related businesses and further prioritized technology and international-related businesses. Meituan has further integrated its local core business because it has suffered a considerable impact from external competition. Since last year, Meituan has been challenged by multiple platforms such as Douyin and Gaode in its local business, and its share price has continued to decline. Since February, Meituan's share price has continued to rise. On April 2, Meituan's share price rose more than 4.9% to HK$101.6, up more than 50% from the low price in February this year. **