Yilun Chen
陈亦伦
Yilun Chen (陈亦伦) is the founder and CEO of Tashi Zhihang (它石智航), an embodied-AI company formally established on February 5, 2025, with Chen as founder and chief executive . He holds a doctorate and has been the company's public face in both fundraising and technology announcements — per Linear Capital, he laid out the firm's full-stack AI approach and its "human-centric" data paradigm alongside the launch of AWE 3.0, billed as the first general-purpose embodied large model "that can actually work" . BlueRun Ventures quoted his own test for the field: whether a technology can yield "genuinely reliable, efficient, mass-deployable useful robots" . Through 2026 he has appeared at WAIC — in a Qiming-hosted panel on how world models drive embodied intelligence — and at Qiming's RMB fund annual meeting debating the embodied-AI boom, while the company's rounds have drawn backing from Qiming Venture Partners, Linear Capital, and BlueRun .
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Morning Star | A Look Back: The Exhibits and Talks You Couldn't Get Enough of at WAIC 2026
Several portfolio companies of Qiming Venture Partners demonstrated their technological innovation capabilities and growth potential through forums, core technology showcases, and thought leadership on cutting-edge trends.
A Conversation with Tashi's Wenchao Ding: Embodied AI May Hit Its True Emergence Moment in 24 Months
"Trustworthiness" may be the final dividing line for embodied intelligence.
From AI New Species to AI New Ecosystem | BlueRun Ventures at WAIC 2026
Moving Together Toward New Frontiers of Capability
Qiming Headlines: Intelligence Ignites the Future — Qiming Venture Partners' 17th RMB Fund Annual Meeting and Investor Summit Successfully Held in Shanghai
Qiming Venture Partners Maintains Investment Discipline, Proactively Captures Market Opportunities as Deal Flow Continues
The People Selling Water to Robots Became a Unicorn
The Pick-and-Shovel Business of Embodied Artificial Intelligence
A Conversation with Chen Yilun of Tashi: In the Trillion-Dollar Embodied Intelligence Arena, Only Those Who Win the War Are Heroes
The first panoramic telling of the Tashi founding story.
Qiming Star | Tashi Zhihang's Yilun Chen: Third Attempt at a Trillion-Dollar Track
We're not afraid of failure at all, but we want to move fast and generate a lot of original, self-driven solutions and ideas.
BlueRun Ventures' Angel Project Tashi Zhihang Closes $455M Pre-A Round to Build Robots That "Actually Work and Actually Ship" | BlueRun Family
Let China's Embodied Intelligence Take the World Stage
"Tashi Intelligent Navigation" Raises $455 Million in Pre-A Round, Linear Capital Continues to Back Through Three Consecutive Rounds Since Seed Stage | Linear Portfolio
China's embodied intelligence sector has set two all-time fundraising records simultaneously.
Yunqi Capital x Tsinghua University | 5 Embodied AI "Heavyweights" on Physical AI and Commercialization
Finding the Decisive Factor in Embodied AI's Path to Market
Qiming Star | Tashi Zhihang CEO Yilun Chen Makes GTC Debut: Globally Unveils AWE 3.0, the First General-Purpose Embodied Large Model That Can Actually Work, Establishing New Path for Physical AI
AWE 3.0's design goals are clear and pragmatic — to get robots truly "out of the greenhouse, onto the job site, and capable of generalizing across tasks."
Every company in the embodied intelligence space could be solid — the key is whether they've figured out who they want to become | Linear Voice
The embodied data foundation needs to be at the scale of 10 million hours or more.
Linear Voice: 2025 in the Linear Capital Network
Those real and important moments.
Cracking the Goldbach Conjecture of Industrial Automation: How Tashi Zhihang Breaks Through Flexible Precision Manufacturing | BlueRun Ventures Portfolio Headlines
Pushing the Boundaries of Capability Across Complex, Flexible Tasks
"Taishi Intelligent Navigation" Debuts Full-Stack Technology, Becoming World's First Robotics Company to Solve Wire Harness Manufacturing | Linear Portfolio
Cracking the "Goldbach's Conjecture" of industrial automation.
BlueRun Ventures in Conversation with AgiBot, Galaxy Universal, Tashi Zhihang, Lingchu Intelligence, and Hillbot — Embodied Intelligence: The "Breaking" and "Making" at Dawn
The Dawn of Embodied Intelligence
Qiming Venture Partners Weekly | Portfolio Company Updates and Funding News Vol. 37, 2025
Staying with you through the milestone moments of Qiming Venture Partners' portfolio companies
Qiming Venture Partners and Over 10 Portfolio Companies Named to Diyixinsheng's 2025 China AI Industry Innovation Pioneer List
The ranking aims to provide comprehensive insight into the AI industry's current state, competitive landscape, application trends, and emerging opportunities — identifying exceptional companies that demonstrate cross-cycle resilience and high growth potential, and that have earned recognition from both investors and customers.
Qiming Venture Partners Portfolio Company Tashi Zhihang Unveils World's First Scalable Real-World Embodied Multimodal Dataset WIYH
This achievement marks the formal establishment of Tashi Zhihang's industry-first human-centric embodied data engine paradigm — a technical approach that leads Tesla's Optimus by roughly six months.
Before the National Day holiday, here's Linear Capital's report card | Linear News
To give back for every vote of confidence with real action.
Dialogue | Qiming Venture Partners' Alex Zhou with Tashi Zhihang's Yilun Chen and Yuanli Lingji's Tang Wenbin: Macro Consensus and Micro Divergence on Embodied Artificial Intelligence
Continuing to explore general-purpose robots, the ultimate goal of AGI
Qiming Headlines | 2025 WAIC "Qiming Venture Partners · Entrepreneurship and Investment Forum—Venture Capital Ignites the AI Technology and Application Resonance Cycle" Successfully Held
From AI 1.0 to AI 2.0, Qiming Venture Partners has invested in over 100 AI projects, with portfolio companies spanning the entire AI industry chain. The firm has helped catalyze the rise of multiple sector-defining companies and stands as one of the most active and influential investment institutions in artificial intelligence across China and Asia.
Guest Lineup Revealed | Register Now for 2025 WAIC Qiming Venture Partners · Entrepreneurship and Investment Forum — Venture Capital Enters AI Technology and Application Resonance Cycle
This sub-forum will showcase and explore the latest breakthroughs in AI technology and applications through the lens of innovation. Qiming Venture Partners will bring together leading scholars and top entrepreneurs in the field — from both the startup and investment perspectives — for four keynote speeches and four panel discussions.
Embodied intelligence startup Tashi Intelligent Navigation announced a $120 million angel funding round, continuing to push the boundaries of physical-world intelligence.
Exploring the unlimited potential of embodied intelligence.
Tashi Zhihang Raises $120 Million in Angel Round, Co-Led by Qiming Venture Partners
Tashi Zhihang is the only company in the industry that simultaneously possesses Embodied Artificial Intelligence large model capabilities, in-house robotics R&D capabilities, and mass production capacity for integrated hardware-software products.
BlueRun Ventures Leads $120 Million Angel Round in Tashi Zhihang, Embarking on a New Journey in Embodied Intelligence | BlueRun Portfolio
Not just a "robotics company," but an "industry scenario solutions company."
