Peng Chao, former president of Tmall Genie, starts a business, aiming to achieve general intelligence through sports AI hardware | Exclusive from Intelligence Emergence

Text by | Qiu Xiaofen

Edited by | Su Jianxun

According to exclusive information obtained by "Intelligent Emergence", Peng Chao, former vice president of Alibaba Group and president of Tmall Genie, has recently started a new business. The new company is named "Yunjue Technology", and its first product is a sports wearable hardware device + Agent intelligent agent.

The "Yunjue Technology" project was launched in mid - October, an informed source told "Intelligent Emergence". Peng Chao believes that consumer - grade intelligent agents and general intelligence may adopt a single training architecture. The core idea is - to let AI play the roles of tracking, planning, analyzing, and executing, and cooperate with hardware devices to enable the intelligent agent to have the ability of self - evolution, accompany consumers to progress in a 5000 - cubic - meter space of high - speed and high - frequency movement, and then evolve and migrate to more physical spaces.

As for the specific form of the hardware, according to "Intelligent Emergence", "Yunjue Technology" is still in the design stage, but "it's not just a single product, but a product portfolio."

Agent intelligent agents in niche industries are currently the favored track for AI entrepreneurs.

Since 2025, there has been a trend of Agentic use in large AI models. AI centered around large language models has evolved from passively responding to instructions in the past to being able to actively plan, execute, and complete complex tasks. Coupled with the gradual maturity of small - parameter inference models (SLM), AI has gradually evolved from a tool to an assistant, becoming "more capable of getting things done".

Peng Chao's entrepreneurial ideas in the field of intelligent agents can also be traced back to his previous views.

Peng Chao, Source: Public media reports

During his tenure at Alibaba, Peng Chao continuously paid attention to Agent intelligent agents. In a media interview in 2022, Peng Chao mentioned that the interaction of the next - generation intelligent agents has just begun. In the future, starting from exploring users' emotions and personalized needs, more connected and intelligent agents will be created to promote the transformation of human - machine interaction into a human - machine partnership.

In terms of team building, another co - founder of "Yunjue Technology" is Qi Weizhen, who was previously a tutor for the doctoral training program in large models at the Zhongguancun Artificial Intelligence Research Institute.

According to "Intelligent Emergence", Qi Weizhen was a jointly - trained doctor by Microsoft and the University of Science and Technology of China. As early as in the ProphetNet project in 2020, he first proposed the MTP architecture (Multi - token Prediction). This architecture was previously introduced into the core pre - training methods of Deepseek V3, Qwen - 3 - Next, etc.

Judging from Qi Weizhen's past research experience, his capabilities mainly focus on enabling the model to achieve higher - quality prediction of the next batch of tokens at a faster speed and lower cost. In addition, Qi Weizhen also has experience in open - source projects in accelerating non - autoregressive generation of large models, multi - modal intelligent agents, and end - to - end inference acceleration.

Before starting this business in the field of intelligent agents, Peng Chao had already accumulated experience in operating intelligent hardware worth over one billion US dollars in several large companies.

According to "Intelligent Emergence", from 2018 to 2020, Peng Chao served as the president of the Indian Regional Department of Huawei's Consumer BG, and established the only overseas company of Huawei at that time with a full - chain of "product definition - R & D - manufacturing - sales".

In 2021, Peng Chao joined Alibaba as the president of Tmall Genie. Immediately afterwards, he led the introduction of DAMO Academy's large model into Tmall Genie and was then responsible for establishing the Group's first - level business company, Intelligent Interconnection.

According to "Intelligent Emergence", during his three - year tenure at Alibaba, Peng Chao significantly adjusted the personnel and supply chain of the AIoT business involving hundreds of millions of ecological devices, achieving positive gross profit for hardware products and large - scale revenue from software subscriptions.

Cover source | Visual China

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