Striding AI Co-founder Yang Yuxin Becomes President to Lead Global Expansion
Striding AI said co-founder Yang Yuxin has become president, responsible for global market expansion, ecosystem building and commercialization. Yang, formerly CMO at Black Sesame Technologies, will help push the company's embodied AI stack into real commercial and industrial scenarios.
Yang graduated from Tsinghua University. Before joining Striding AI, he served as chief marketing officer at Black Sesame Technologies (02533.HK), where he was responsible for marketing, capital operations, business development and ecosystem cooperation. During eight years at Black Sesame Technologies, he experienced the company's entire process from first product launch to mass production and a successful Hong Kong stock listing. Black Sesame Technologies, described as China's 'first smart car AI chip stock,' was founded in 2016 and focuses on smart car AI chips. It has also entered the embodied intelligence field and released the 'SesameX' series robot computing platform in November 2025. On July 29, 2026, Striding AI and Black Sesame Technologies signed a strategic cooperation agreement to jointly promote the global development of embodied intelligence. Before Black Sesame Technologies, Yang served as a director and vice president at Thundersoft (300496.SZ).
'Yang Yuxin is a rare veteran in this industry who has a deep understanding of both business and capital, possesses industry insight, and has experienced the complete cycle of industry and company development,' said Yao Song, founder and CEO of Striding AI. He said the embodied intelligence industry and the smart car industry have much in common. Yang's formal joining fills the most important missing piece in the company's early startup phase, and he looks forward to working together to bring embodied intelligence into real commercial and industrial scenarios and to turn the key node of physical intelligence moving toward generality into tangible productivity that benefits people's daily lives.
Striding AI was founded in early 2026 as a physical intelligence company jointly initiated by serial entrepreneur Yao Song, the multinational industrial group CP Group, and well-known Tsinghua young scholar Yu Chao. With the mission of 'using physical intelligence to bring convenience to the world,' the company explores the boundaries of physical intelligence. Through world action models and reinforcement learning technology, it promotes the large-scale deployment of humanoid robots in real commercial and industrial scenarios and aims to become a globally trusted robot service provider.
Striding AI believes that the industrialization of Physical AI is not a one-way leap from technology to business, but a process in which technology, products, scenarios and the industrial ecosystem continuously validate one another and co-evolve. A truly mature product needs to be tested in the real world, continuously iterated through ongoing collaboration with customers and industry partners, and ultimately form replicable and scalable commercial value. Yang's addition will further strengthen Striding AI's ability to connect technology, products, customers and the industrial ecosystem, accelerate the entry of Physical AI into more real-world scenarios, and create sustainable value for humanity.