Yao Song
Yao Song (姚颂) is a Chinese technology entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Striding AI (正行创新), a physical intelligence systems company focused on robotics. He previously co-founded AI chip company DeePhi Technology (深鉴科技) in 2016, which was acquired by Xilinx in 2018 for approximately $300 million, and later co-founded commercial aerospace company Oriental Space (东方空间). He is a Tsinghua University graduate in electrical engineering and was named to MIT Technology Review China's 35 Innovators Under 35.
“"There was a teacher who summarized it perfectly — he said life has two states: boring and suffering. It's just a question of which you can tolerate less. For me, I cannot tolerate boring."”
Source→“We got a very attractive offer. In the end we accepted it. From my personal perspective, at that time I was maybe 25–26 and came from a salaried family — the number was definitely attractive.”
Source→“The moment of our first successful launch — Gravity-1 in early 2024 — that was definitely my happiest moment.”
Source→“Striding AI: Founded with strategic shareholders Charoen Pokphand Group (正大集团) and Wingtech Technology (华勤技术) to build system-level physical intelligence with day-one international deployment capability; 70 employees, ~$100M Series A completed.”
Source→“Rather than immediately launching a second company after selling Deephi (深鉴科技), Yao spent three years systematically mapping every adjacent frontier — laser lidar, brain-computer interfaces, controllable fusion, quantum computing, commercial rockets — by joining Coatue (经纬) as a venture partner.”
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