Founder · Executive · Engineer
William Chen
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Co-founder and Head of Strategy & Management at Sapient Intelligence
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.
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Background
Current role
Co-founder and Head of Strategy & ManagementSapient Intelligence
Previously
Head of Commercialization and Venture, Tsinghua Innovation Center
Development Team Lead and Research Engineer, DJI
R&D Engineer, Hesai Technologies
Education
Tsinghua UniversityAbout this data
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Last editorial review: August 10, 2026