Qi Yin

Yin Qi (印奇) is one of China's first-generation AI entrepreneurs: in 2011 he co-founded Megvii — later counted among the "AI Four Dragons" — with Wenbin Tang and Mu Yang . His focus has since shifted to putting AI into vehicles: he now chairs Qianli Technology, where he oversees strategy and transformation , having merged Geely's and Maichi's smart-driving teams into a 2,000-plus-person operation, brought in former Huawei Smart Car BU head Wang Jun, and secured a 1.3 billion yuan investment from Mercedes-Benz, per 十字路口Crossing . In January 2026 he also formally took the chairman seat at foundation-model company StepFun, setting strategy and technical direction — a move 十字路口Crossing described as giving StepFun's model "brain" and Qianli's terminal "body" a single decision-maker . At WAIC 2026 he delivered a keynote on agents entering the physical world .