Shanda Group, founded in 1999 by Tianqiao Chen, was an early internet gaming pioneer in China. Today, it invests globally in deep tech, AI and frontier science.
Thank you Laure Belot (@curieusedetout) at @LeMondeFR
for this thoughtful article about the Chen's approach to philanthropy. What an interesting series to be featured in.
The final day of Memory Genesis Competition 2026 is April 4th.
Compute gets the headlines. Memory is where intelligence actually lives.
Keynotes. Roundtables with OpenAI + AWS. $80K+ in prizes. Live demos on stage.
📍 Computer History Museum · Mountain View Spots are limited.
Final chapter of Memory Genesis 2026 is here.
April 4 · Computer History Museum · Mountain View
Finalist teams demo live. 30+ judges score in real time. $80K+ in prizes.
Keynote on agents, reasoning & memory.
3 expert panels. Awards ceremony.
The future of AI memory gets
Proud to see @miromind_ai 's MiroThinker paper ranked #1 Paper of the Day on @huggingface Face — a meaningful recognition for a team that has been quietly doing serious work.
As @tianqiao_chen notes, the milestone is not the point. The direction is. Building AI that doesn't
Getting ranked #1 Paper of the Day in huggingface is nice.
But that’s not the point.
The point is this:
Most AI today is optimized for conversation.
Very little of it is built to solve real problems.
And the gap is not just scale.
It’s verification.
Without verification, AI
Another strong result from the Shanda research ecosystem — this time from @evermind.
MSA (Memory Sparse Attention) scaling to 100M tokens is a meaningful technical step. But as @tianqiao_chen points out, the bigger idea is the shift from context as input to memory as a system —
MSA (Memory Sparse Attention)
→ scaling to 100M tokens
→ addressing the long-standing trade-offs between scalability, precision, and efficiency
What this points to is not just longer context,
but a shift from “context as input” to memory as a system.
This is still early, but
@miromind_ai is building the team to match the mission.
Scientists from xAI, Meta FAIR, Princeton, Caltech, NTU — all focused on one thing: AI that isn't just plausible, but provably right.
This is why Shanda backed MiroMind. Proud of what this team is becoming. 🧠
Big news: three world-class scientists join MiroMind's core research team.
🔬 Dr. @SimonShaoleiDu (ex-xAI, FAIR, Princeton) → Reasoning Models & Training
🤖 Prof. Bo An (NTU) → Runtime & Agent Systems
✅ Dr. @KaiyuYang4 (ex-Meta FAIR, Caltech) → Verifiable AI Lab
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