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Yuandong Tian
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Co-founder at Recursive
Tian was a research director at Meta's FAIR lab, known for the DarkForest Go engine, the ELF game-research platform, and theoretical analyses of self-supervised learning. In 2026 he co-founded Recursive, a startup pursuing self-improving AI.
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