Yachen Song
宋亚宸
Yachen Song (Simon) is the founder and CEO of VAST, the AI 3D foundation-model company he started in 2023, whose product Tripo generates complete 3D content from text, images, or multimodal input . Born in 1997 and a Johns Hopkins undergraduate (international relations and economics), he joined SenseTime in 2018, where he built AI-plus-animation and AI-plus-gaming businesses from zero, then in 2021 became an early member — reportedly employee No. 001 — of MiniMax before leaving to found VAST . Per Oasis Capital, VAST's angel-round sole lead investor, he took the company through three funding rounds (each in the hundreds of millions of RMB) in under two years, pushing the Tripo model series to tens of millions of users, and became the first Chinese speaker on SIGGRAPH's keynote stage in the conference's 50-year history . His stated ambition, as he put it to 暗涌Waves, reflects a believer's stance: "the biggest difference between a startup and a big company is believing first, then seeing" .
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Coverage
Moving Forward Along New Coordinates｜Vital Monthly
Advisory Vitality
Yachen Song: Advancing Civilization for the World, Creating Happiness for Humanity | North Slope Project
This grove may still be just a thicket of shrubs, but one day it will grow into a forest.
E15. Yachen Song: Advancing Civilization for the World, Creating Happiness for Humanity | North Slope Project
VAST Closes $50 Million Series A to Build World Models and UGC Interactive Platform | Oasis Vitality
To start a business, you have to "believe first" rather than "see first."
President Xi Jinping Inspects Beijing's Sci-Tech Innovation Work; Oasis Portfolio Company Attends and Exchanges Views | Luzhou Shengmingli
Consultant Vitality
Li Shanyou in Conversation with Yachen Song: Building the World's Most Powerful AI 3D Foundation Model in Three Years | Oasis Vitality
"Everyone has their own happiness, and that matters a lot to me."
China as a Variable Reshaping the Global Innovation Landscape | Oasis Capital x BRIDGE Summit
Adviser Vitality
"Language Models Have Hit a Wall; 3D Foundation Models Are Just Getting Started" | A Conversation with VAST Founder Yachen Song on Two Years of "Wild Ride" in 3D Foundation Model Entrepreneurship
In the future, everyone will be able to create worlds with AI — not merely inhabit them.
"Language Models Have Hit a Wall; 3D Foundation Models Are Just Getting Started" — VAST Founder Yachen Song on Two Years of Building 3D Foundation Models at Full Speed
AI Open Mic, Episode 15, 2025: Here's what Crossing and friends talked about…
What AI Entrepreneurs See and Think at the Crossing
Seeing the Rhythm in Progress | Vital Monthly
Counselor Vitality
Premier Li Qiang's Message to Oasis Ecosystem Companies | The Vitality of Oasis
Vitality Advisor
VAST Raises Another Tens of Millions of Dollars, Launches AI-Powered All-in-One 3D Workstation | Oasis Vitality
Counselor Vitality
VAST Closes New Funding Round of Tens of Millions of Dollars, Says "Model as Product" Is Not a Real Product
A new path.
Crossing March Offline Salon Recap: What AI Startup Opportunities Exist in the Post-DeepSeek Era?
We recently pulled off "something big."
3D Foundation Model Startup VAST Closes Hundreds of Millions of RMB Funding Round, Using Scaling Law to Build Next-Generation 3D Content Platform | Led by Oasis Capital
Counselor Vitality (Note: This appears to be a standalone phrase or title fragment. "参赞" can mean "counselor" (diplomatic title) or "participate in planning/advising"; "生命力" means "vitality" or "life force." Without additional context, this is the most direct translation. If this refers to a specific column or section title in a publication, it might alternatively be rendered as "The Vitality of Counselors" or "Counselor on Vitality" depending on intended meaning.)
VAST Closes New Funding Round: Is 3D the Last Ticket for AIGC?
Will 3D Be the Future?
"MiniMax," "VAST," "Yunqi Wuyin" and Other Founders Make 36Kr's Under36 List | Oasis Capital Vitality
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