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Tsinghua Founder Raises Nearly $50 Million for Self-Evolving AI Models

Apex Intelligence, founded by early-career researcher Yongchao Chen, has raised close to $50 million to build artificial intelligence models that improve themselves with limited human input.…

by Fiona MacLeod
28 September 2026
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