Tsinghua professor's ApexIntelligence raises $50M to build self-evolving foundation models
DeryaTR_ · x · 2026-10-16
Yongchao Chen, Assistant Professor at Tsinghua University's College of AI and founder of ApexIntelligence, raised $50M in angel-stage funding last month. With a USTC bachelor's, Harvard-MIT joint PhD, and stints at Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and IBM, he focuses on self-evolving foundation models, robotics, and AI for Science—aiming for models that identify problems, form hypotheses, design experiments, validate results, and improve autonomously.
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