Pan Yang

Pan Yang is a co-founder of SiliconFlow, an AI inference cloud that serves open-source models through a single API. In a 2025 talk on AI infrastructure he argued that demand is shifting towards inference and that open-source models trail the leading closed models by three to five months.

Anchor Terminal lists SiliconFlow from SiliconFlow Labs Pte. Ltd.. SiliconFlow is a hosted inference API for open-weight models, covering chat, vision, embeddings, reranking, image, video and speech. It answers OpenAI-style and Anthropic-style calls at api.siliconflow.com with a Bearer key.

The sources our research read name Alibaba Group, Sinovation Ventures, China Growth Capital, Puhua Capital, Glory Ventures, Meituan, Miracle Plus, Huachuang Capital, Huawei, Biren Technology, Zhipu AI, SenseTime, Yuntu Capital, Wang Huiwen, China Internet Investment Fund, China Reform Fund, China Mobile Chain Leader Fund, China Orient Asset Management (International), Jingneng Fund, Shanghai Inesa Intelligent Computing Fund, CIC Huake, Beijing Venture Capital, Cuiwei Fund, Chengdu Science and Technology Innovation Investment, Jiangxi Financial Holding Group, Chengdu High-Tech Beite Fund, Zhongtai Capital, Huaan Jiaye, Teamsun, Unis Capital, Zhaoxun Technology, TRS, Pengyao Environmental Protection, Ruizhi Fund, Zhijun Capital, Kandaowu Xin Fund, Tianchuang Capital, Shandong Railway Industry Investment, Shandong Railway Fund, Yoowto Capital, Shengyi Capital and Cathay Venture Capital Group.

SiliconFlow is graded D, 47 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.