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Self-taught calculus in middle school, holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from Tongji University and a master's degree in science from Columbia University, champion of the IBM Intelligent Business Analytics Competition, and previously worked at Tencent Cloud and Smart Industries Group.
Five years ago, after learning about Agile Robots and conducting deep due diligence, the Linear Capital investment team immediately flew to Munich to meet the founding team, fresh from leaving the German Aerospace Center to start their venture. They talked technology, they talked future growth. Agile's products, technology, and founders left a deep impression on us. On the way back to Shanghai, the team held an investment committee meeting right there in the airport and decided to bet on Agile Robots as angel investors. In the years that followed,
Last week, colleagues from Linear Capital's investment team hosted and attended a series of events in London. Beyond sharing Linear's story and the purpose of our trip with the Zhejiang University UK Alumni Association, Oxford University Life Sciences Society, Oxford University Student Union, and Cambridge University Student Union, we also exchanged views on frontier technology and investment trends with local startups and institutions working on cutting-edge tech. At the same time, we shared Linear's lessons learned — our observations from watching founders who received higher education and professional training overseas return to China to start businesses.
Steve Jobs once said: "The low-bandwidth era transmits information; the high-bandwidth era may transmit emotion."
At the end of March, Linear Capital brought several of its portfolio companies to meet with C&D Group, co-hosting a digitalization salon at the Shanghai C&D Tower alongside C&D Emerging Investment and C&D Group's informatization center. Over the course of an afternoon, Linear Capital and its portfolio companies engaged with C&D Group's headquarters and informatization teams across various industry groups to discuss current technology trends and explore how these cutting-edge products and solutions could be applied across Xiamen C&D's diverse business areas.
Recently, Harry Wang, founding partner and CEO of Linear Capital, sat down with *Pengpai Tech* to share the fund's perspective on the hot topic of ChatGPT, lessons learned from investing in AI commercialization projects, and how his investment philosophy has evolved over Linear Capital's eight-year history. As the article notes, Linear Capital has always emphasized that "technology is the primary productive force." We pursue and believe in technological innovation, while also maintaining deep respect for the humanities, our customers, business fundamentals, and capital markets.
Europe is one of the world's core regions for technological innovation, and Linear Capital has been closely tracking cutting-edge developments there.
Recently, ChatGPT has become officially available through OpenAI services on Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing operating system. Azure OpenAI integrates OpenAI's technologies, allowing Azure global enterprise customers to directly access OpenAI models on the cloud platform, including GPT-3.5, Codex, and DALL-E models, while enjoying Azu
Focused on developing production-scale microfluidic technology.
Recently, Bai Zeren, Senior Investment Director at Linear Capital, sat down with *Jazzyear* to share his views on the entrepreneurial opportunities brought by ChatGPT. When it comes to the domestic market for large language model startups, Linear Capital remains optimistic. "While the engineering detours and challenges will take time to work through, the probability of Chinese companies producing something with 80% of ChatGPT's capabilities within two to three years is quite high — even if surpassing what OpenAI has already built will be difficult."
