Tang Wenbin

“Tang Wenbin co-founded Megvii (旷视) in 2011—one of China's earliest AI companies—built on computer vision. Now in 2025, he is co-founding Yuanli Lingji (原力灵机 / RoboticX), focused on embodied intelligence.”

“Alipay surveyed every company providing facial recognition technology on the market. In the end, they found our results were the best.”

“Hugging Face counts, right? Android too... MongoDB, message queues—these all grew within the open-source ecosystem.”

“Intelligent, useful, trustworthy robots—that's our mission statement.”

“We co-trained a native VLM multimodal model—we contributed robot data, Jiyue contributed some multimodal data, plus autonomous driving data.”

“Tang Jie had just been promoted to associate professor and had just gained the right to admit students. He could only admit one person per year. That first person was me.”

“The first time I participated in the NOI national competition, it was alongside Luo Tianchen. We were both on the Zhejiang provincial team that year.”