Yachen Song
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Yachen Song is the founder and CEO of VAST, a 3D foundation-model company he started in March 2023 after leaving MiniMax, where he had been an early employee . His path into AI began in 2018 when he joined SenseTime's CEO office while still a student, and in 2021 he became a founding member of MiniMax as its "employee No. 001" . At VAST he has pursued what he calls a conviction that 3D is "the next content form," releasing generative 3D models including Tripo 3.0 and raising multiple funding rounds in the tens of millions of dollars . As 暗涌Waves noted, he maintains an almost missionary optimism about the space, arguing that "model as product" is not itself a real product and that startups win by believing before seeing .
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"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
十字路口Crossing·VAST Closes New Funding Round of Tens of Millions of Dollars, Says "Model as Product" Is Not a Real Product
A new path.
暗涌Waves·VAST Closes New Funding Round: Is 3D the Last Ticket for AIGC?
Will 3D Be the Future?
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