The Core of Chasing Light

In the cold winter of the primary market, Su Yan, a former AI core researcher at a major manufacturer, founded Yanxin Technology in a 15-square-meter incubator with the underlying technology of edge AI, determined to create intelligent hardware that "enters the lives of ordinary people" and breaks overseas monopolies. On the way to financing, 23 institutions rejected the project one after another due to the bias of "ambiguous track + female founders"; the supply chain was suddenly cut off from competing products, and the foundries raised prices; the core technology partners struggled to achieve perfection, and market expansion was aborted due to a lack of funds, and the company was forced to mortgage real estate. In desperation, she "blocked" Lu Zeyan of Yuantao Capital at an industry summit, and impressed this investor who believed in long-termism with a demo of offline real-time translation in 0.28 Seconds. However, mass production encountered a quality control crisis, and 10% of the products had to be recalled; when it entered Europe, it encountered a 120 million euro patent siege; key employees were forced to leave due to equity incentive disputes; overseas supply chains were frozen; on the eve of listing, it was raided by short-selling institutions, and its technical autonomy was maliciously questioned. From the laboratory to the negotiation table, from Southeast Asia to the European and American markets, Su Yan led the team to break through the swords and swords of financing games, patent litigation, and equity disputes. She and Lu Zeyan went from conceptual confrontation to fighting side by side, restrained and affectionate; the technical partner learned business compromise, and the market partner transformed in the compliance crisis. This is an epic that deeply restores the truth about hard technology entrepreneurship. It is also the ultimate game between technological ideals and business reality, short-term interests and long-termism. When edge AI meets global ambitions, and when female entrepreneurs break prejudices, they will eventually use persistence and resilience to light up the path of China's technology pursuit of light.