Koji
杨远骋
Koji is a Chinese serial entrepreneur turned AI media founder and investor. He co-founded Jiepang (街旁), TheFair/新世相, and the sleep brand Tangdao (躺岛), with a stint in between as GM of the mobile division at cosmetics e-commerce platform Jumei ; after Tangdao, he founded 十字路口Crossing, an AI-focused media outlet and podcast he co-hosts with Ronghui, where the name borrows Jobs's metaphor of standing at the crossroads of technology and the humanities . He also launched AI Hacker House, a community space for the new generation of AI founders , and since 2025 has added a new role as Venture Partner at ZhenFund . Per a Crossing interview with the Beyond Cycles podcast, he's described as someone with an unusually sharp commercial nose who has managed to get hands-on in every wave — internet, mobile, now AI — and come out with results .
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So He Turned Toward Embodied AI: A Conversation with Wang Jiawei, the 24-Year-Old Chief Scientist of Embodied Artificial Intelligence
10 Q&As: A Deep Dive into the Divisions Surrounding Embodied Robots | Yunqi Capital X Crossing
The Battle for Data, the Battle for Intelligence, the Battle for Scenarios
10 Q&As: A Deep Dive into the Divides in Embodied Robotics — A Conversation with the Founders and Chief Scientists of Sudu Tech, Ant Group's Lingbo, Independent Variable Robotics, and Poke Robotics
Where does the data come from? How is the model built? Where does it get deployed?
When Embodied Artificial Intelligence Reaches a Crossroads: A Conversation with Sudu Tech, Ant Group's Lingbo, Independent Variable Robotics, and Poke Robotics — Four Frontline Perspectives
What Will It Take for Robots to Move Beyond Demos? We Talked to AgiBot, AI2Robotics, Luming Robotics, Inverse Matrix, and JD.com
You have to reach for the heights and still make it across the river.
Cheated, Rescued, Put on a Pedestal, and Brought Down by Pain—Now She's Betting on Adventure in the AI Era | A Conversation with Kuaikan Comics CEO Chen Anni
"Go ahead and enjoy it!"
Three-Hour Interview with Juanjuan: From Douyin to AI 3D, the Rollercoaster of Entrepreneurship, Ambitions to Become Manufacturing OS, and Why Foundation Models Won't Swallow Everything!
A 3-Hour Interview with Juanjuan: From Douyin to AI 3D, the Entrepreneurial Roller Coaster, the Ambition to Become a Manufacturing OS, and Why Foundation Models Won't Swallow Everything!
The Second Half of AI Won't End With Just One Supermodel｜A Conversation With Kevin Ding, Pyromind Founder/CEO
22-Year-Old Embodied AI CEO on Raising $100M in 5 Rounds: 'Ignorance Is the Best Time to Start a Company'
"What Makes You Love an Industry for 15 Years?" | A Conversation with Tianfan Wang: I Want to Invest in True Joy, the Purest Vision, and the Brilliance of Human Nature [Highway Podcast]
Faster! Even faster! Fast enough to generate the world in real time | A chat with Shengshu Technology's Jintao Zhang on Vidu S1, inference acceleration, and real-time interactive video
I Found the First Companion Robot I Actually Want to Buy! | A Conversation with Shibo: Founder of Yueban Power [Highway Podcast]
Day 500 of the Agent Era: What's Disappearing, What's Being Born — Why We Should Stop Investing in GUI-Minded Software
I Found the First Companion Robot I Actually Want to Buy! | A Conversation with Shibo: Founder of Yueban Dynamics [Highway Podcast]
A Conversation with MiniMax's Junjie Yan: M3, Project 10X, the 10T Model, and the Endgame of Intelligence
Which Path Leads to the "World Model" Endgame? | A Conversation with Biwei Huang: Founder of Aether AI
Causal World Models: A New Paradigm for AI
A Conversation with MiniMax's Junjie Yan: M3, Project 10X, 10T Models, and the Endgame of Intelligence
When intelligence approaches the tipping point.
How Do Pros Use AI? How Do Regular People Learn AI? How Do Investors Bet on AI? | A Conversation with Ke Dai Biao Li Zheng
OpenAI and Anthropic Both Bet on FDE: A New Role Emerges in the AI Era, Old Divisions Loosen | A Conversation with Rolling AI
2026 AI Gaming Panorama: Four Layers, Three Myths, One Consensus Gap | A Talk with 405 Games' Xiaoning
Lots of fragments, no smash hit yet.
2026 AI Game Industry Panorama: Four-Layer Landscape, Three Major Misconceptions, and One Consensus Gap | A Conversation with Youning Xiao of 405 Games
The Best Way for Humans and AI Agents to Work Together Hasn't Been Invented Yet | A Conversation with Paperboy
Exploring Claude Code and Understanding the Agent Harness | A Conversation with Xinlu Lai
When We Talk About Harness, What Are We Really Talking About | Deep Dive: Minimax × Hermes Agent
Why Can't Companies Use AI Well? Three Critical Moves from Anxiety to Action | A Conversation with Baifendian's Shaofeng Zhang
Bringing 7 Hackathon Contestants Into the Podcast | Champions, Oddballs, and 48-Hour Sleepless Dreamers
"You wouldn't lend out a shovel that can dig up gold" | A Conversation with Lu Ziheng of Kaiwu Ji: Using AI to Invent New Materials
"AGI Is Here? I Used It for a Week and My Scalp Went Numb" | A Conversation with Haoran Zhang: Cofounder of Moxt
She Wants to Build an AI-Era 'Super Playground' | A Conversation with Roi, Founder and CEO of Mujian
"The 100 Million Token Club" Is Packed — AI Is Running Out of Fuel | A Conversation with Wenyuan Yu: Technical Lead of Alibaba Cloud Bailian
After OpenClaw, Who Will Define the New Battleground for Proactive AI? | A Conversation with AirJelly's Huang Bote
20 Questions to Understand OpenClaw: Viral Mechanics, Fundamental Shifts, and Startup Opportunities
The Man Who Sold His Company for $4 Billion, Back at the Crossroads | A Conversation with Justin Yuan: Entrepreneurship, Life, and Those "Useless Things"
What Future Does He See That We Don't? | A Conversation with 18-Year-Old Tu Jinhao: Former DeepSeek Intern, Alibaba Math Competition AI Champion
Is This Video Editing's "Cursor Moment"? | A Conversation with ChatCut Founder Kevin Li: From Golden Horse-Winning Director to AI Entrepreneur
Paranoia, Ambition, and a Pair of AI Glasses: The Raw Fuel of Elite Product Managers | A Conversation with Li Auto SVP Haoyu Fan
2026: The Year of AI Video Is Coming | A Conversation with OiiOii Founder Nao Nao: After Stints at Tencent and ByteDance, How to Catch the Next Wave?
Sp.01 | Debriefing China's Primary Market in 2025 (Ft. Crossroads)
Where Did the Money Go? Who's Still Writing Checks? A 2025 VC Debrief With Jing Liu
VC takes a certain amount of instinct.
Where Did the Money Go? Who's Still Writing Checks? A 2025 VC Debrief with Jing Liu New Consensus and Undercurrents Among China's VCs
Investing in 50 AI Companies in One Year; What Was I Thinking When None of Us Knew the Answers? | A Conversation with Jie Yang, Founding Partner of Jinqiu Fund
When AI Starts Using Phones Like Humans
From Doubao to StepFun's Step-GUI: Smartphones Are Becoming AI's New Entry Point
Challenging WeChat Is a Death Wish? The Ambitions of a 25-Year-Old AI Founder | In Conversation with Chunyu Chen: Founder/CEO of Intent
The Sexiest AI Opportunities Are in Markets That Are "Slow, Expensive, and Fragmented" | A Conversation with Mizzen AI's Keqiang Sun & Yihao Li
What Did He See? | A Conversation with Zhang Fan: Former COO of Zhipu AI, Founder/CEO of Yoolee AI — Why He's Convinced AI's Opportunity Lies in ToB
"Treat AI as a person.
Your Next Wearable: A Health Companion Hanging Around Your Neck? | A Conversation with Chris Pan, Founder of AI Necklace Odyss, and Li Yihao, Partner at CreekStone
What Did He See? | A Conversation with Zhang Fan: Former Zhipu AI COO, Founder/CEO of Yuanli Intelligence — Why Is He Convinced AI's Opportunity Lies in ToB?
Fresh off a nine-figure funding round, how does he plan to crack the "impossible triangle" of AI hardware? | A conversation with Xiao Ma: Founder/CEO of iFLYTEK Future Intelligence
When Alibaba Enters the Global AI Coding Arena: 60 Days on the Battlefield | A Conversation with Shutong, Founder of Qoder
2025 AI Live: What We Witnessed and Imagined This Year
In Beijing, let's chat about how AI sees love, hate, and everything in between?
Using AI to achieve "emotional equality" — using AI to see people's stories and emotions, to understand more of the love and hate, joy and sorrow, partings and reunions.
Throwing a 100-day banquet for the "Crossing" podcast — our troublemaking extrovert selves welcome you to keep co-creating energy with us
After "Crossing" hit 100 days on air and crossed 5,000 subscribers, we slapped our thighs and made a call: let's throw a party!
Throwing a "Hundred-Day Banquet" for a Podcast — AI-Era Activist Salon
100 Days, an AI Podcast: How to Go from 0 to 5,000 Members? 7 Numbers, 5 Takeaways, 800 RMB in Revenue
Two interesting things lately: Crossing's positioning & Video Battle.
Finding and Uniting "Active Agents" in the AI Era
Let AI Help You Create Wonders — Linear Capital and Newshixiang Launch the First AI Art Festival
Last week, The Fair, in partnership with Linear Capital, launched [the first AI Art Festival (AIAF)](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzI2OTA3MTA5Mg==&mid=2652141099&idx=1&sn=f4b4090179c28b7679f56f322239f732&scene=21#we
How Many Miracles Can Ordinary People Create Once They Have AI: The "Love, Hate, Passion, and Vengeance" AI Video Creation Project
Come become the new legend
Standing at the AI Crossing, the Future Comes Roaring In | 16 Observations and Reflections from My Q1
The green mountains endure, the clear waters flow on — change never misses its cue.
The Next Jay Chou: Human or AI? | A Conversation with the CEO of *Youci Mountain* and the GM of *Wajijiwa Music* on Suno
Music remains scarce — Suno is just a pretty little toy.
How Are Top Podcasters Doubling Their Creative Efficiency in the AI Era?
"The future is already here — it's just not evenly distributed."
Qidi Weekly | The AI Face-Off Between Zhilin Yang and Allen Zhu
"Inspiration Weekly" is a column I'll update every week. Here, I'll record five people or things that inspired me during the week — to help me reflect, grow, expand my intellectual boundaries, and become freer and happier.
When Everyone Opposed Using AI for Parenting, It "Saved" Me Twice!
What is love?
In One Year, Using ChatGPT, Achan Went From Quitting His Job to Topping GitHub's Global Trending List
What he didn't expect was that ChatGPT didn't help him find his next startup direction — but it did make him freer, and happier.
Enlightenment Weekly | Why Read Warren Buffett's Shareholder Letter Every Year? Here Are 6 Reasons
What's scarce isn't knowledge — it's wisdom.
Li Auto MEGA: One Incident, Four Heartbeats, Three Observations
And, love at first sight.
After the Sora Hype Subsides, Reason Emerges: What 5 Top Creators Really Think
The best time to reexamine a hot topic's impact, controversies, and value is when the frenzy has just passed but the afterglow remains.
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