Exclusive Interview with Global Mofy Metaverse Ltd. (GMM.US) | Yang Haogang, the "Best CEO" of the Post-90s Generation: Sticking to the original intention, pursuing innovation, and leading the digital content revolution.

In the past year 2024, with the rapid scale-up and deepening popularity of AI Big Models in various applications, the AIGC industry has entered a new development stage of transitioning from technology to scene application. Numerous AI Big Models have emerged one after another, among which Gausspeed platform, launched by Global Mofy Metaverse Ltd., is undoubtedly one of the most eye-catching. It is reported that this AI platform was officially launched in the first half of this year and has already successfully landed in multiple commercial application scenarios, fully demonstrating its future growth potential. A month ago, the results of the ninth GMTEight listed companies selection were announced, and Mr. Yang Haogang, founder and chairman of Global Mofy Metaverse Ltd. (GMM.US), was selected and awarded the "Best CEO" award. This award is given to CEOs who have demonstrated professional competence, bold innovation capability, entrepreneurial spirit, and have made outstanding contributions to the company's development and value creation in the past year. At the same time, Mr. Yang Haogang shared his original intention of establishing Global Mofy Metaverse Ltd., the challenges he encountered in entrepreneurship, and his views on the industry's future in an interview with GMTEight. From visual effects to digital content: Yang Haogang and the innovation journey of Global Mofy Metaverse Ltd. Since starting his business in 2017, Mr. Yang Haogang has led Global Mofy Metaverse Ltd. through a seven-year development journey. During this period, with his profound insights and keen judgments on the current situation and future trends of the digital content industry, he successfully led the company from a visual effects company to a multi-domain, technology-driven innovative company, steadily leading at the forefront of the digital content industry. In addition to successfully taking the company public, Yang Haogang has accumulated rich experience in the commercial application of AI Big Models and 3D digital assets, demonstrating his unique strategic vision and industry leadership. The establishment and development of Global Mofy Metaverse Ltd. is a microcosm of the rapid evolution of China's digital content industry. As the founder and chairman, Yang Haogang has been committed to technological innovation and market expansion, and the company's business now covers multiple cutting-edge fields such as digital content, AI Big Models, and virtual reality. Yang Haogang's success is not only due to his deep understanding of technology and precise grasp of industry trends but also symbolizes his bold exploration of the future digital content creation model. It is understood that Global Mofy Metaverse Ltd. has a deep technical foundation in the visual effects field, with many executives from top visual effects companies in the United States and core members with over ten years of experience in digital visual technology, having participated in the production of many well-known domestic and foreign visual effects films such as "Chinese Women's Volleyball Team," "Emergency Rescue," "Detective Pu Songling," "Journey to the West," "Painted Skin 2," and others. With its strong special effects technology capabilities and rich industry experience, Global Mofy Metaverse Ltd. has achieved considerable success in the film industry. However, during the entrepreneurial process, Yang Haogang gradually realized that traditional film production methods entail high costs, low efficiency, and especially in the field of special effects production, this process often requires significant time and financial investment. Faced with these bottlenecks, Yang Haogang put forward a bold idea to break through the limitations of the industry through technological innovation, optimize the film production process, and gradually expand into a broader range of digital content fields. Since then, Global Mofy Metaverse Ltd. has embarked on a rapid strategic transformation from visual effects to the digital content industry, entering various emerging fields such as digital entertainment, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), games, animation, and digital cultural tourism. As a representative of young entrepreneurs born in the 1990s, Yang Haogang not only has a solid technical background but also possesses broad vision and forward-thinking strategic thinking. With these advantages, he has led Global Mofy Metaverse Ltd. to make breakthroughs in the ever-changing market and achieve outstanding accomplishments in multiple fields. In recent years, Yang Haogang has also received numerous industry honors, such as the title of "2019 China's Annual Innovative CEO" in the "2019 New Economy Industry Annual Summit," the title of "2020 Innovative China Advanced Individual in Science and Technology" at the Seventeenth China Scientists Forum, the title of "2020 Brand China Contribution Figure," the title of "Outstanding Individual in Technology Innovation of the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan," which all indicate his significant contributions to the development of the private economy. AI unleashes business potential: Innovation is the top priority of the company Since 2019, in addition to the traditional field of film and television, Global Mofy Metaverse Ltd.'s business has extended to the digital entertainment and digital content industry, involving applications in advertising, games, XR, animation, digital cultural tourism, and other emerging fields. With the continuous changes in market demand, Yang Haogang and his team deeply understand that innovation is the top priority for business development. Only by continuously exploring new technologies and applications can they stand out in the fiercely competitive industry. Under his vision, Global Mofy Metaverse Ltd. has now formed a business layout that combines the three core advantages of innovation-driven organic integration: Gausspeed, which made its first appearance this year, is an outstanding AI video generation platform aimed at completely transforming the film production process. Through collaborative research and development with leading international companies, its physical engine and multimodal AI technology can achieve efficient real-time physical rendering and material solving, and faithfully reproduce real-world physics data in the virtual world, covering more than 70% of the total known types of materials globally, with parameters reaching 900 billion; by providing digital assets that meet professional film production standards and opening up secondary coding.Editing and creating, the Gausspeed platform can be directly commercialized for film and television.The high-quality and high-precision proprietary 3D digital asset library is one of the strengths of Gausspeed's large model application. As of now, according to industry data from Frost Sullivan, Global Mofy Metaverse Ltd. has over 100,000 high-precision 3D digital assets, making it China's leading digital asset library. These assets can be applied in various fields including but not limited to movies, TV series, AR/VR, animation, advertising, and games, covering a wide range of categories such as nature, science fiction, and architecture. Mofy Lab platform integrates more than 30 independently developed technologies such as high-precision 3D reconstruction technology, digital content editable middleware, and artificial intelligence interaction. It covers multiple areas including digital content production, visual effects processing, project management, and AI technology applications, providing a one-stop, cost-effective digital content generation solution. As the core technology research and development platform of Global Mofy Metaverse Ltd., it focuses on optimizing the production process of digital content, providing in-depth data insights and improving work efficiency. Since last year, with Siasun Robot&AutomationChat GPT chat, a new wave of artificial intelligence has been unleashed, and applications of advanced technologies such as AI text generation, AI image generation, and even video generation are on the rise. Utilizing AI video generation technology combined with its deep digital assets and technological foundation, Gausspeed, born out of Global Mofy Metaverse Ltd., is not only a significant achievement in the company's active transition to cutting-edge fields such as AI but also will become a "bridgehead" for the company to explore more potential commercial scenarios. Cultivating the "long-termism" inner strength, years of hard work are paying off From inception to the present, the journey of Global Mofy Metaverse Ltd. can be described as "pioneering, overcoming obstacles." When discussing the various challenges faced by Global Mofy Metaverse Ltd. over the years in technology, market, and team building, Yang Haogang emphasized the key bottleneck of early development of Gausspeed -- data training and algorithm optimization. He pointed out that in the training of AI large models, computing power and data resources are like the "hardware" and "software" of AI large models, and both massive computing resources and high-quality data are indispensable. For large models like Gausspeed's text-to-video, the complexity and computational difficulty are significantly increased compared to generating text or images. Over the years, under the leadership of Yang Haogang, Global Mofy Metaverse Ltd. has adhered to a corporate culture of open collaboration and efficient execution. In response to challenges such as insufficient computing power and low data labeling efficiency during the development process, the company actively explores deep cooperation opportunities with leading computing centers worldwide, gradually overcoming difficulties by optimizing algorithms and improving hardware efficiency. In addition, the company actively trains data annotators to ensure the accuracy of model training. Yang Haogang stated that the past experiences are a valuable asset: "These experiences have made me realize that only by adhering to long-termism and continuous innovation can we stand firm in a technology-driven industry." Years of effort and accumulation have finally borne fruit. In the latest annual report, Global Mofy Metaverse Ltd. achieved historical highs in key indicators such as revenue, gross profit margin, and earnings per share for the 2024 fiscal year, with revenue increasing by 53.8% to $41.36 million, and gross profit reaching $20.8 million, a 43.2% increase from the same period last year. The impressive financial performance did not exceed Yang Haogang's expectations. He pointed out that the significant improvement in performance is attributed to the company's successful cost control and transition to AI. Compared to competitors such as Runway, Pika, PixelDance, and Emu Video, Gausspeed is not only more professional and vertical but has also been the first to achieve commercialization, contributing significantly to the company's performance growth. Regarding performance in 2025, Yang Haogang also gave an optimistic forecast. With the dual drivers of strong core performance and the accelerated global layout of CKH HOLDINGS, Global Mofy Metaverse Ltd. is expected to achieve steady revenue growth in 2025, demonstrating strong development potential. New AI players, how to view the era of artificial intelligence? The year 2024 was called by many media as the "year of large model applications landing and the development of large models in the industry." At the beginning of 2025, facing more uncertainties in the macro environment and international situation, the field of AI, as the hottest and most promising technological frontier, is set to become a new core battleground. Yang Haogang pointed out that generative AI technology is a disruptive revolution that brings unlimited possibilities to the digital content industry. "Through AI, high-precision modeling, intelligent video and image generation, it opens a new door for creators to explore unprecedented creative expression forms." In such a market environment, Global Mofy Metaverse Ltd.'s next strategic stage will focus on three key points: enhancing technological barriers, expanding more application scenarios, and strengthening global layout. As an innovative company serving the global digital content industry with generative AI technology at its core, Global Mofy Metaverse Ltd. will always be rooted in technological innovation, continue to invest in efficient research and development, and continuously strengthen its technological moat. By solidifying its technological base, Global Mofy Metaverse Ltd. also plans to explore more application scenarios such as industrial metaverse, digital immersive experiences, and smart city applications, build a diversified business layout, and enhance robust stability in navigating uncertainties. In the global layout... (the text got cut off here)Global Mofy Metaverse Ltd. has established the GMM DISCOVERY brand and its subsidiary GMM DISCOVERY LLC in the North American market. Currently, the company has offices in Beijing, Zhejiang, and California, USA, and will further expand its business coverage in the Asia Pacific, Europe, and other regions in the future, aiming to become a leader in the global digital content industry.At the end of the interview, Yang Haogang also shared his insights on how to balance work and life from his perspective. "For me, work and life are not opposing forces, but rather complementary. Establishing Global Mofy Metaverse Ltd. itself is a passionate pursuit, and I find joy in it. At the same time, I also focus on broadening my horizons through travel, reading, and other means. The key to balance is being fully present in the moment, whether it's work or personal life." Conclusion In the AI era where "the future is already here," platforms like Gausspeed and others in AI content generation have opened up new avenues for creators to explore unprecedented forms of creative expression. As a rising star in AI and a representative of the younger generation of entrepreneurs, Yang Haogang and his team at Global Mofy Metaverse Ltd. are poised to carve out their own space in the vast blue ocean market of AI models. Today, Global Mofy Metaverse Ltd. is at the forefront of commercial applications of AI models. With the company actively exploring and expanding its presence, it is believed that its performance will continue to reach new heights in the future.