On National Science and Technology Workers' Day, Tezign Featured in People's Daily Front-Page News | Linear Portfolio

"AI is a young field, and a field for the young." On National Science and Technology Workers' Day, People's Daily featured Tezign, a Linear Capital angel-round portfolio company, on page 6 of its news section.

In an interview, Tezign's founder and CEO Ling Fan, who also directs the Tongji University Design AI Lab, said the company's mission is to unlock AI's "right-brain" potential — amassing vast datasets to build foundational open-source resources for creative design, enabling AI platforms to understand and optimize content production more effectively.

This marks the ninth annual National Science and Technology Workers' Day. A People's Daily reporter recently interviewed four science and technology professionals, gathering their stories of persistent problem-solving and bold innovation. The report noted that China's stream of scientific and technological breakthroughs in recent years owes much to the dedicated, collaborative efforts of the country's vast community of researchers. Shouldering the responsibility to innovate and scaling the heights of science and technology, they are contributing to the accelerated development of China as a world leader in science and technology and the realization of self-reliance in science and technology at a high level.

Among those featured alongside Ling Fan were Andrew Yao, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and dean of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences at Tsinghua University; Wu Weiren, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and chief designer of China's lunar exploration program; and Sun Zhen, head of the Deep-Sea Drilling Center at the Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey.

Report Highlights

As evening falls, Tezign's lab in Model Speed Space, Xuhui District, Shanghai buzzes with activity — the clatter of keyboards and animated discussions fill the air. Ling Fan is huddled with several graduate students from Tongji University's College of Design and Innovation, reviewing the latest product tests. The space doubles as both Tezign's office and the Tongji University Design AI Lab. Here, a team of young researchers focuses on developing enterprise-grade content AI platforms, helping companies produce, analyze, distribute, and manage content more efficiently.

Tezign is an AI-powered enterprise content company that aims to bridge technology and creativity through its enterprise content AI platform. At its core lies content understanding and generation — using large language models to reason through and parse unstructured data like images, text, and video, ultimately delivering the content users need.

Research suggests that while the left brain governs logical reasoning, the right brain dominates humanities, design, and art. Most current AI development has concentrated on "left-brain" capabilities; the potential of the "right brain" remains largely untapped. Tezign's focus is on unlocking this right-brain potential for AI, building foundational open-source datasets for creative design through extensive data accumulation, and enabling AI platforms to understand and optimize content production more effectively.

In recent years, Tezign partnered with Tongji University to establish the Design AI Lab, assembling a research team spanning design, computer science, cognitive science, digital humanities, and management science — all collaborating on "content + AI" challenges. The team has built a multi-tiered teaching system with over 30 course modules, integrating AI technology into educational settings to refine the technology while cultivating innovative talent.

This April, through these collective efforts, Tezign launched atypica.AI, a business research agent that simulates unstructured human decision-making pathways to enable open-ended business problem exploration.

The horizon for technological innovation is vast, and AI is still in its ascendancy. Continuously pushing technological boundaries and nurturing more creative young talent — that is Tezign's north star.

*Reported and compiled by Tian Hong, People's Daily