Yan Junjie
Founder & CEO — MiniMax
Born 1989. BS in Mathematics from Southeast University; PhD from the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2015); postdoc at Tsinghua. Spent 6+ years at SenseTime as VP and Vice-Head of the Research Institute. Founded MiniMax in 2021, inspired by OpenAI’s Dota 2 bots. IPO’d on HKEX January 2026. Second AI startup founder to meet Premier Li Qiang (after Liang Wenfeng).
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