About Us
Vision
Inventing the lean general intelligence: AGI beyond brute-force
Mission
Building efficient & powerful general intelligence through brain-inspired architecture
Our Progress
2024.08
The Origin
2024.11
Seed Round
2025.01
Seed+ Acceleration
2025.06
HRM Paper
2025.07
HRM Open Source
2025.07
Youngest-Ever Speaker at Fortune Brainstorm AI
2025.11
AIMED 25 Award for Healthcare AI Impact
2026.05
HRM-Text Open Source
Core Values
First Principles Thinking
Find the fundamental truth.
Optimize
Never settle.
Open AGI
Everyone builds.
Our team
We bring together top-tier scientists and engineers with experience across leading AI organizations, including Google DeepMind, DeepSeek, and xAI, alongside research experts from the Tsinghua Laboratory of Brain and Intelligence and top institutions such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Cambridge, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Alberta, Tsinghua University, and Peking University. Advancing AGI as a global effort, Sapient operates across Singapore, Palo Alto, and Beijing.
Guan is an RL expert with experience across leading research labs and AI organizations, including Tsinghua Brain and Intelligence Lab, Shanghai AI Lab, and Pony.ai. He led OpenOrca, authored OpenChat, and has a strong track record in open-source AI development. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Tsinghua University and was named Forbes 30 Under 30 and Hurun Under30s.
AI Researcher @TsinghuaBrain & Intelligence Lab
RL Expert @Shanghai AI Lab, Pony.ai
Lead Developer @OpenOrca, Author of OpenChat
B.S. @Tsinghua University, Computer Science
Forbes 30 Under 30
Guan Wang
Founder
Chief Executive Officer
William is a multidisciplinary innovator with experience across robotics, embedded systems, and commercialization. He served as R&D Engineer at DJI and Hesai Technologies, and led venture development at Tsinghua Innovation Center. He graduated from Tsinghua University with the Zhaoping-Gaorong Scholarship.
Dev Team Lead, Research Engineer @ DJI
R&D Engineer @Hesai Technologies
Head of Commercialization and Venture @Tsinghua Innovation Center
B.S. @ Tsinghua University, Mechanical Engineering
Tsinghua University Zhaoping-Gaorong Scholarship
William Chen
Co-founder
Head of Strategy & Management
Our Locations
We operate where innovation happens. Across Singapore, Palo Alto, and Beijing, Sapient Intelligence connects leading global innovation hubs to build the next generation of AI.