Yitai Zhixin (AetherHeart / Aether Heart Tech)
Category: AI Infrastructure
Shanghai-based edge AI agent infrastructure company building the Aeloon agent and the AetherStation edge appliance, co-optimizing agent, harness, model and hardware to run agents locally at low cost. Yitai Zhixin (AetherHeart / Aether Heart Tech) was founded in 2026. Based in Shanghai (Zhangjiang Science Gate, Pudong), China. Latest round: Seed. Key investors include 上海天使会 (Shanghai Angel Club), 浦东创投 (Pudong Venture Capital), 高信资本 (Gaoxin Capital), 天使清芬 (Angel Qingfen).
- Founded
- 2026
- Headquarters
- Shanghai (Zhangjiang Science Gate, Pudong), China
Value proposition
Deliver high-quality enterprise agent capability locally, with data staying on-premises, at roughly 1/10 to 1/40 the per-task cost of mainstream deployments. Enterprise agent deployment drops from million-RMB GPU clusters to a ten-thousand-RMB single machine (company claims, based on internal tests).
Products and solutions
Aeloon (伊龙) AI agent (Aeloon Core), AetherStation edge appliance (Standard and domestic Xinchuang editions), Attune (joint model and harness optimization), AetherInfer (execution orchestration), Tamer (node runtime management and scheduling), Handshake (cross-vendor agent interoperability).
Unique value
Task-first 'task economics' approach: four-layer co-optimization (Agent, Harness, Model, Hardware) that is chip-neutral and delivered at the edge.
Target customer
Enterprises and government/state-owned organizations needing private, on-premises agent deployment; personal and home users planned later.
Industries served
Government/state-owned enterprises, advanced manufacturing, finance and tax, healthcare and research, telecom
Technology advantage
Founding team with deep HPC and systems research background (dozens of papers at SIGMOD, VLDB, PPoPP, SC and KDD). Self-reported internal benchmarks: 125 tok/s single-request and 630 tok/s at 16 concurrent streams on a 27B model, versus NVIDIA DGX Spark. These claims are unverified by third parties.
How they differentiate
Co-designs agent software, inference engine and hardware around task quality and cost, rather than selling single-layer model tuning, application wrappers or inference acceleration.
Main competitors
NVIDIA DGX Spark, Apple Mac mini (local agent hosting), other edge agent appliance vendors
Key partnerships
Co-issued the 'Agent Interconnection Collaborative Development and Governance Initiative' at WAIC 2026 with CAICT, Huawei, Alibaba, China Mobile, China Unicom, China Telecom and Intellifusion, named a Shanghai key AI industry project and Pudong key project.
Major milestones
2026-03 company founded and Aeloon pre-released at the Shanghai Global Investment Promotion Conference, 2026-04 Shanghai Angel Club record oversubscription, 2026-07 Aeloon beta and WAIC 2026 showing, 2026-08 seed round of tens of millions RMB.
Growth metrics
Founded in Q1 2026; Aeloon beta launched July 2026; seed round closed August 2026. Deployments reported in government, compliance review, case analysis, enterprise knowledge base and data analysis scenarios.
Market positioning
Positions itself as the missing infrastructure layer between agent software and edge hardware; private edge alternative to cloud API calls and project-based on-premises deployments.
Geographic focus
China
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