On March 22, the 2025 Frost & Sullivan China Entrepreneur Annual Conference and Forbes China Industry Trailblazer Selection Ceremony was held in Shanghai. In late November of last year, Forbes China collaborated with the renowned growth consulting firm Frost & Sullivan to launch the "2025 Forbes China Industry Trailblazer Selection," adhering to principles of fairness, impartiality, and transparency. After a meticulous review process spanning several months, Zhou Hao, the founder and CEO of QuantGroup, was honored as a 2025 Forbes China Industry Trailblazer for his innovative leadership in artificial intelligence and his company's pioneering role in the industry.

The "2025 Forbes China Industry Trailblazer Selection" focuses on avant-garde fields such as new energy, AI technology, mass consumption, and internet services. Leveraging the top resources and professional teams of both parties in industry research and media communication, it aims to discover and honor outstanding individuals with a broad global influence and innovative spirit through rigorous data analysis and in-depth market research. The industry widely regards this selection as not only a recognition of trailblazing entrepreneurship but also a shared vision for the future development of the most promising industries.

Both Forbes China and Frost & Sullivan boast a global perspective and are leading institutions with a long-standing presence in the Chinese market. Their strong partnership provides robust support and guarantees for the selection, making the recognized individuals and their companies authoritative and influential benchmarks. As a leading provider of precision matching solutions in China, QuantGroup relies on its advanced closed-loop scenario-based service capabilities, modular operational prowess, large-scale product and service output, and robust AI empowerment to offer scenario-based digital empowerment services across multiple industries, facilitating deep digital integration of scenarios, technology, traffic, operations, products, and services. Furthermore, QuantGroup proactively embraces the demand for digital transformation, actively explores more AI+ application possibilities, and independently developed the "QuantPlanet" AI technology platform, introducing an innovative "pay-per-performance" business model. With over a decade of deep involvement in AI, QuantGroup continuously increases its investment in scientific research. According to the latest data, the company's R&D team comprises approximately 45% of the total workforce, holding 50 software copyrights and 9 patents, while the transformation capacity of its scientific and technological achievements continues to improve.

QuantGroup's exploration achievements and leading position in AI technology are closely tied to the trailblazing role of founder Zhou Hao. Since establishing QuantGroup in 2014, Zhou Hao has led the team into a new era of scenario-based digital solutions in China, leveraging his profound academic foundation and practical experience. Zhou Hao holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Rice University and a Bachelor's degree in Physics from Peking University, coupled with extensive practical experience in AI algorithms and online retail, which have been crucial to QuantGroup's rapid development and continuous breakthroughs in AI. The award citation specifically mentions that Zhou Hao won the "2025 Forbes China Industry Trailblazer" for his company's rapid expansion, unique value proposition, and sustainable long-term development goals. This not only showcases his influence in the precision matching solution industry in China's consumer market but also serves as a powerful reference and demonstration for the sustainable development of precision matching solutions across the entire Chinese consumer market.

Zhou Hao has consistently emphasized QuantGroup's corporate culture values of "honesty, self-drive, and makers," encouraging employees to focus on users' genuine needs and problems, solving them through innovative means, and thereby creating value. Notably, as a representative of founders who possess and dare to disrupt, Zhou Hao was also recognized as a 2024 Forbes China Disruptive Founder. Additionally, he has received prestigious awards such as "2024 Industry Influencer," "2024 Excellent Manager of New Quality Productivity," "Model Award for Innovation Management in Technology Enterprises," and "Pioneer of China's New Economy."

In this selection, Forbes China also noted that industry leaders are increasingly becoming generators that verify the implementability of innovative content and starting points for new technologies, business models, and formats, driving industry iteration and upgrading through collaboration with numerous startups or development teams. Forbes China and Frost & Sullivan jointly launched the "2025 Forbes China Industry Trailblazer Selection" based on this understanding.

The development and application of artificial intelligence are unlocking potential in numerous fields. QuantGroup will continue to uphold its corporate mission of "Digital Driving the World, Intelligence Lighting Up Life," injecting innovative momentum into the digital era. Simultaneously, QuantGroup has proposed a strategic blueprint of "Technology Leading the World, Ecosystem Empowering Ten Thousand Enterprises," continually promoting the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial upgrading, empowering a broader range of AI application fields globally, and striving to become the core engine of global industrial intelligence, continuously unleashing new momentum in the digital economy.