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Simon Song
Founder & CEO, VAST
Simon Song is the Founder and CEO of VAST, a next generation content creation company built on the Tripo 3D large model. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University, he previously led multiple AI projects at SenseTime, bringing advanced AIGC technology into commercial use in animation and gaming. He also contributed to the founding of MiniMax, a major general purpose model company.
Since founding VAST in 2023, Simon has scaled the company to more than 100 team members with annual recurring revenue surpassing 12 million dollars. The company secured a significant Pre A plus funding round in 2025 and released Tripo 3.0, a 20 billion parameter model that delivers notable improvements in geometry and texture quality.
At BRIDGE Summit, Simon will share his vision for universal content creation, the future of 3D workflows, and how large scale generative models are expanding global creative capabilities.
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Simon Songat BRIDGE
- Technology Panel 8 December 2:00 - 2:20PM
Spatial Media in Practice
Immersive technologies like augmented reality and volumetric video change storytelling, creating new ways to inform and engage. Pew found 40%+ adults interested in immersive news formats. How can journalists and educators harness spatial media to enhance empathy and critical thinking in a fractured landscape?
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