Junyang Lin Founds Pragmatik Labs to Research AI Agents

Junyang Lin posted that he founded Pragmatik Labs in Shanghai to research next-generation agents operating across digital and physical worlds. He named the company 语用科技 and credited Gaorong Ventures and HSG for co-leading the seed round, with participation from Tencent and Shanghai Engine Fund. Lin previously led Alibaba's Qwen LLM and multimodal team. The company site describes its work as building agents to transform work and life. Multiple AI researchers replied with congratulations.