# Gao Yang (高阳): founder, Spirit AI

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Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Spirit AI, a Beijing-based robotics company building a universal brain for robots using embodied AI models. Gao Yang is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS), Tsinghua University, and a UC Berkeley graduate who studied under Pieter Abbeel. He led the development of the ViLa and CoPa models for general-purpose robotic manipulation.

- **Nationality:** Chinese
- **Verification posture:** reported

## Current roles (1)

- [Spirit AI](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/spirit-ai.md) Co-founder & Chief Scientist (_reported, not verified_)

## Sources (4)

1. https://crunchbase.com
2. https://kr-asia.com/entrepreneurship-is-like-playing-a-game-says-spirit-ai-co-founder-gao-yang
3. https://src.stanford.edu/src-events/bot4nbr3a8ykux3lkkyvea47c9dmt0
4. https://baike.baidu.com/en/item/Spirit%20AI%20(Hangzhou)%20Technology%20Co.%2C%20Ltd./33601


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