Management Team

Dr. Yan Junjie, aged 36, is our founder, the chairman of our Board, executive Director, chief executive officer and chief technology officer. He is primarily responsible for overseeing the overall management and business operation, board affairs, financial affairs, formulating strategies and operation plans particularly on AI research and development, making major business decisions of our Group.

Prior to founding the Company, Dr. Yan served at SenseTime Group Inc., a company listed on the Stock Exchange (stock code: 0020), for more than six years with positions such as its vice president, and vice-head of its research institute.

Dr. Yan obtained a bachelor of mathematics in Southeast University in the PRC in June 2010. He then obtained a doctorate degree in the area of artificial intelligence in the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences in July 2015 and conducted post-doctorate research at Tsinghua University. Dr. Yan has published approximately 200 academic articles on top conferences and journals with over 30,000 citations and won several awards and honors. Dr. Yan was awarded the First Prize in the Guangdong Province Technology Invention Award in February 2020; the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Natural Science Award in October 2019; Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Technology Progress Award in October 2019; 2024 Shanghai Oriental Talents Program in December 2024; and Senior Professional Title, a professional title generally denotes individuals who have outstanding achievements in their respective technical or professional fields, by the Shanghai Municipal Professional Title Evaluation Committee in February 2025.

Ms. Yun Yeyi, aged 31, is our executive Director and chief operating officer. Ms. Yun is primarily responsible for overseeing the overall management and business operation, board affairs, formulating strategies and operation plans particularly on product and commercialization, making major business decisions of our Group.

Prior to joining our Company, she served various positions in SenseTime Group Inc.. She was the manager of fundraising and strategic investment of SenseTime Group Inc. from September 2017 to August 2018. She was then promoted to the CEO executive assistant and head of strategy from August 2018 to January 2021. Ms. Yun then served as its director of innovative business from January 2021 to January 2022.

Ms. Yun obtained a bachelor of science degree in electronical engineering with additional majors in economics and mathematics from The Johns Hopkins University in the United States in 2017.

Mr. Zhao Pengyu, aged 29, is our executive Director appointed in June 2025 and the large language model research and engineering leader. Mr. Zhao joined our Company as a natural language processing researcher and engineer since August 2023. He is primarily responsible for the research and development of large language models.

Prior to joining our Company, Mr. Zhao served as a research software development engineer in Beijing Hulu Technology Co., Ltd., a company mainly engaged in the research and development of streaming media technology, between August 2020 and July 2023, where he was primarily responsible for recommendation algorithms.

Mr. Zhao obtained his bachelor's degree and master's degree in computer science and technology from Peking University in the PRC in July 2017 and July 2020, respectively.

Mr. Zhou Yucong, aged 32, is our executive Director appointed in June 2025 and the visual model research and engineering leader. Mr. Zhou joined our Company as a visual model researcher and engineer since March 2022. He is primarily responsible for research and development of visual models.

Prior to joining our Company, Mr. Zhou worked at SenseTime Group Inc. from April 2018 to July 2019 and Huawei Technology Company Limited from August 2019 to March 2022, where he focused on algorithms. Mr. Zhou has also been the legal representative and director of Shanghai MiniMax since January 2023.

Mr. Zhou obtained his bachelor's degree in mathematics and applied mathematics and master's degree in computer science from Beihang University in July 2015 and March 2018, respectively.