Yolanda

Yolanda is 袁泉 (Yuan Quan), co-founder and CEO of the general-AI company Qiyuan World (启元世界), which he established in 2017 alongside Long Haitao . Before founding the firm, Yuan was a senior director at Alibaba's cognitive computing lab and creator of Taobao's recommendation-algorithm team . Qiyuan World, which won the 2018 NeurIPS multi-agent competition Learning track, positions itself as building "general AI infrastructure for the digital age" and has drawn Gaorong Ventures as an early backer . Yuan has spoken publicly on decision intelligence, the metaverse, and pandemic-era decision-making at venues including the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence .