Wen Zhang
张文
Wen Zhang (张文) is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Biren Technology (壁仞科技), the Chinese general-purpose GPU startup whose BR100 chip set a global computing-power record at its 2022 launch . Before founding Biren, he served as president of SenseTime from 2018, where he led the relocation of its headquarters to Shanghai . Qiming Venture Partners' Duane Kuang, reflecting on the Biren investment, singled out Zhang and his early team as the core of the bet — "before the company even existed, the 'people' were the core" — and per 暗涌Waves, it was Qiming's Alex Zhou who wrote Zhang his first check . Under Zhang, Biren lit up China's largest general-purpose GPU chip and struck a strategic partnership with Ping An Technology to push BR100-series mass deployment .
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Qiming Venture Partners' Alex Zhou: From Founding Investor to IPO Cornerstone, Firmly Believing in Biren Technology's Ability to Navigate Long Cycles
"We won't invest too early before the wave arrives, nor will we follow the crowd once the wave has fully formed. We aim to seize the moment — that 'half-step' just before the big wave hits — to find and back the most promising teams."
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MaHui | MaHui Member Biren Technology Forms Strategic Partnership with Ping An Technology to Build Industry Benchmark for Domestic Large-Scale Computing Chip Deployment
Code Moment | Biren Technology Lights Up China's Largest General-Purpose GPU Chip
The BR100 series, the first general-purpose GPU chips, were successfully powered on in their initial bring-up.
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