About ORIGIN FORWARD

It starts with
their own question.

ORIGIN FORWARD is a youth AI software-creation community that connects independent creation with real-world practice.

原点未来

What we believe

Kids choose the direction. AI widens what's possible.

Who we areA youth AI software-creation community connecting independent creation with real-world practice.
MissionHelp kids define their own problems and use AI to build software that creates real value.
Gentle intelligenceClear technology that supports creation and leaves room for curiosity, trial and error, and independent judgment.
VisionA generation of independent thinkers who create value.

What "origin" means

Every project starts from a kid's own question and idea, then grows step by step into a product.

  1. 01A pointThe starting point is the kid's own question, not an assigned task.
  2. 02ForwardWith AI, the idea becomes something that runs and that others can use.
  3. 03Open spaceThe empty center of the ring is left for the kid's own judgment and choices.

Keeping agency in every choice

HonestBuild for real users and needs; validate with real use and feedback.
BravePut ideas forward and keep improving through trial and iteration.
ResponsibleQuestion AI output, explain choices, and own the product and its users.

Mentors

Lead teachers come from ORIGIN FORWARD and guide kids from a question to a finished project.

BUILD / Product development

Mentor photo · Jiao Yifeng · Illustrated avatar redrawn by Codex from the original

Jiao Yifeng

AI Frontier

  • AI at major tech companies
  • Academic research

Bachelor's and master's in Geographic Information Science, Nanjing Normal University.

At Ant Group he built recommendation algorithms for Alipay's core services, worked on the recommender systems behind large campaigns such as Wufu and Double 12, and built the algorithms for several main entry points on the Alipay home screen from scratch.

He now leads research combining large language models and life sciences at the Shanghai Academy of AI for Science, applying AI for Science to single-cell analysis, spatial omics and computational pathology. His work has been published in Advanced Science, ICML, NeurIPS, SIGIR and IJCAI, and has drawn attention from the Arc Institute and others.

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Wang Jie

AI at Scale

  • Large-scale content platforms
  • AI product systems

Graduate of Shanghai Jiao Tong University; former head of the AI department in one of ByteDance's core businesses.

Led core AI projects such as content platforms serving hundreds of millions of users and content moderation, and knows how technology changes real society.

Has published multiple papers at top international AI conferences. Combines deep algorithmic expertise with insight into frontier technology, and understands how AI reshapes product experiences and platforms in real business.

Sees across AI technology, business, product and commerce, and uses the evolution of AI systems and real products at large companies to show kids how an idea grows into large-scale use.

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Du Yuxin

AI and GameDev

  • Game development
  • AI workflows

An experienced independent founder in games who supports multiple game studios and publishers, and a game content creator with 700,000 followers. Focused on researching and applying AI workflows and exploring what AI makes possible in making games.

Brings experience in both supporting game development and creating content. From the views of maker and player, he breaks down the core of play, responsiveness and how appeal is communicated, then turns them into concrete, doable development tasks.

In project mentoring he grows ideas step by step into playable products through clarifying requirements, working with AI, building, testing and improving, and connects them to release, publishing and validating business viability.

BUSINESS / Commercialization

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Vivi

Growth Builder

  • AI commercialization
  • Growth

Graduate degree from Shanghai International Studies University; partner at Conswall Ventures. Has lectured on AI marketing in the EMBA program of the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SJTU), spoken at a Tongji University TED event, and been a regular AI marketing speaker at Mosu Space, the large-model innovation community in Shanghai.

Now leads the commercialization division of a well-known AI startup valued at around RMB 10 billion. Previously a director at GLG and Meritco Group and head of commercialization at an AI company, she continues to support founders and CEOs of AI-native companies.

She is good at clarifying an AI company's product value, market messaging, user growth and path to revenue. Drawing on investment, AI marketing and startup experience, she helps kids think beyond making something to finding users and earning revenue.

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Pu Jian

Strategy Builder

  • Consulting methods
  • AI strategy

Bachelor's in management from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, with a minor in computer science.

Formerly a partner and head of enterprise AI transformation at a well-known consulting firm, he has long served large consumer goods and retail companies and helped more than 20 companies of RMB 10 billion scale grow and adopt AI.

Combines consulting methods, hands-on growth work and AI commercialization. He breaks complex problems into clear steps, teaches how to look at user needs, product positioning and cost-benefit, and guides kids toward business decisions they can act on.

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Yuka

Youth AI Builder

  • AI education
  • Youth tech entrepreneurship

With roots in Japan and China, she is fluent in Japanese, Chinese and English. She studied at the Faculty of Lifelong Learning and Career Studies at Hosei University, where she became interested in entrepreneurship.

She founded her first company at 19. While at university she was selected for SoftBank Academia, founded by Masayoshi Son, and what she learned from him led her to start a business in AI education.

For more than ten years she has worked on AI education and project-based learning for children and teenagers, teaching more than 2,000 people and supporting over 100 students through technology and creative projects.

She is good at guiding AI, programming and product design toward projects that can be launched, connecting development, business thinking and pitching to support kids' one-person company practice.

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