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Founder · Executive · Engineer
William Chen
Sapient IntelligenceCo-founder and Head of Strategy & Management
Chen co-founded Sapient Intelligence, which is exploring brain-inspired alternatives to simply scaling language models. He leads strategy and management around systems such as the Hierarchical Reasoning Model, designed to perform multi-step abstract reasoning with small networks that repeatedly refine internal state.
Career & education
Current role
Co-founder and Head of Strategy & Management
Previously
Head of Commercialization and Venture
Development Team Lead and Research Engineer
R&D Engineer
Education
Tsinghua UniversityWork and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
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