Gao Jiyang, born in 1992, is founder and chief executive of Galaxea Dynamics. The embodied AI company makes robotics software, robotic arms and humanoids, which can clean bathrooms and play guitar. It has collaborated on research with Stanford…

…University and counts tech giants such as ByteDance and Samsung among its customers, according to its website. The Beijing-based firm is valued at $688 million as of April, and it raised an additional $100 million in July, according to Pitchbook. Gao founded Galaxea in 2023 after working on autonomous driving at Google-backed Waymo and Chinese firm Momenta; earlier in his career he was an intern at Google and AI software company SenseTime. He holds a doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California.