Chairman of TARS (它石智航), the embodied-AI company that raised a record $455M Pre-A in April 2026 co-led by Hillhouse and Sequoia China — the largest single round in Chinese embodied AI. Formerly president of Baidu's Intelligent Driving Group, he pairs with CEO Chen Yilun (ex-Huawei autonomous-driving CTO) on a bet that the autonomous-driving playbook transfers to general-purpose robots.