Yao Shunyu

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   Ex-Anthropic, DeepMind researcher Yao Shunyu reportedly starts RSI firm at $2B valuation

   Market reports dated Oct 13 say Yao Shunyu — a 29-year-old Tsinghua physics graduate and Stanford theoretical-physics PhD who worked on Claude and Gemini — has started a company in the RSI (recursive self-improvement) space to build customized models for enterprises, at a rumored valuation of about $2 billion with mostly overseas backers; the report is unconfirmed and no funding amount has been disclosed. Yao joined Anthropic in October 2024, contributing to agentic coding and tool-use research for Claude 3.7 and reinforcement-learning foundations for the Claude 4 family, and left partly over the company's China-related stance before joining Google DeepMind on Sept 29, 2025. The piece also surveys the crowded RSI field, including Tian Yuandong's Recursive Superintelligence, Jeff Dean's Discovery Loop, Sakana AI and China's Chaoyan Intelligence, noting there is no consensus on technical approach and that automated research may raise compute bills before it lowers them.

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   Ma Huateng sits beside Tencent chief AI scientist Yao Shunyu at Shenzhen briefing

   Chinese media report that on October 8 Guangdong party secretary Huang Kunming visited Tencent's Shenzhen headquarters to review its AI research and industrial plans, and that chairman and CEO Ma Huateng sat next to Tencent chief AI scientist Yao Shunyu at the following discussion. The reports say Yao, born in 1998, studied in Tsinghua University's Yao class and earned a computer science PhD at Princeton before joining OpenAI as a research scientist in 2024, where he worked on the operator agent product and deep research and is linked to the ReAct method. He left OpenAI for Tencent in September 2025 and in December was named chief AI scientist in the CEO/president's office, reporting to president Liu Chiping while also heading the AI Infra and large language model departments. TMTPost says Tencent merged its Hunyuan multimodal and LLM departments into a foundation model department under Yao in July, and cites the half-year report for capital expenditure up 81.9% year on year to 84.72 billion yuan.

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