At the end of December 2024, the pre-training algorithm team of Zero One Everything received an offer from the Tongyi team, and the Infra team received an offer from Alibaba Cloud. Currently, Alibaba is recruiting the Zero One Everything team in the form of providing jobs, rather than acquisitions. Another person familiar with the matter said that in early January 2025, Kai-Fu Lee mentioned at an internal meeting that Zero One Everything was short of funds, and the funds invested in pre-training were relatively large, and the company planned to transform into an application. An employee of Zero One Everything told the reporter that in mid-December, the team first received a layoff notice, and the offer from Alibaba was received about a week later. It was only a verbal offer, and the specific terms had not yet been negotiated. "Tongyi and Alibaba Cloud arranged some leaders to communicate one-on-one with members of the Zero One team." Zero One Everything has also made corresponding adjustments to the strategy for AI applications: in addition to PopAi, an overseas application with good revenue and growth performance, which can be self-sufficient, some of its applications have split teams and raised funds in the form of subsidiaries.