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Apex Intelligence, founded by Tsinghua assistant professor Chen Yongchao, secured hundreds of millions yuan in funding within 2 months to develop self-evolving AI models.

PRIVATESep 16, 2026

Round Type

Venture

ChinaBiotechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningNatural Language Processing

Description

Chen Yongchao, a Harvard-MIT joint doctoral graduate who turned down DeepMind and overseas startup offers, founded Apex Intelligence to develop self-evolving foundational models. The startup secured hundreds of millions yuan in financing within two months of launch. The company focuses on training general models capable of independent self-improvement to complete scientific research tasks. Apex Intelligence is part of China's growing RSI (Recursive Self-Improvement) startup ecosystem.

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Company Information

Company

Apex Intelligence

Location

China

About

Apex Intelligence is a startup founded by Chen Yongchao focusing on the development of self-evolving foundational models capable of recursive self-improvement. The company aims to train general AI models that can independently complete scientific research tasks including idea conception, literature retrieval, and experiment execution. Unlike other RSI startups, Apex Intelligence explores recursive self-improvement at the foundational model layer rather than the Agent layer. The company's core team comprises researchers from leading organizations including Google DeepMind, Microsoft, ByteDance, and Zhipu AI.

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