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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. lemonde.fr/series-d-ete/a…

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. Register now. ↓

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 just sound right, but actually is right — that's a harder problem, and one worth solving. Congratulations to the entire MiroMind team. This is just the beginning.

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 — a fundamentally different way of thinking about how AI retains and reasons over information. Proud of what the EverMind team is building. Keep going.

Some weeks remind me why building research teams is worth it. This week, our Tokyo AI Research Institute received great news: multiple papers from the team have been accepted to CVPR 2026. Huge congratulations to the researchers and students involved: Xuangeng Chu, Ruicong Liu — for their work on joint generation of listener and speaker facial expressions. Haiyang Liu, Yiyi Cai — for their research on natural-language-guided motion generation. Erwin Wu, Xuangeng Chu, Haiyang Liu — together with collaborators from Tokyo Institute of Science, for their work on dialogue-driven speech–motion generation. Zhixiang Wang, Zhenghui Huang — for their work on hybrid rendering for world models. And special recognition to Dr. Kaipeng Zhang, whose team contributed four papers in the world model area accepted to CVPR. Together these contributions span digital humans, motion generation, and world models — the exact research directions we set for the Tokyo institute from day one. The Tokyo AI Research Institute operates alongside MiroMind as part of the broader research ecosystem under Shanda. We chose Tokyo intentionally. Japan is the global center of animation, virtual characters, and digital entertainment culture. Our ambition is to build the AI technologies that will power the next generation of games, digital characters, and interactive worlds. Seeing the Tokyo team’s work recognized by CVPR is an exciting milestone — but it’s only the beginning. If you are a researcher or engineer in Japan working on digital humans, world models, graphics, generative AI, or interactive systems, we would love to connect. Great things are just getting started. lnkd.in/gTA4Wza4 #CVPR #DigitalHumans #WorldModels #GenerativeAI #AIResearch #TokyoAI

@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 milestone from our portfolio company @miromind_ai. MiroThinker-1.7 and H1 are out — built for the problems that actually matter: long-horizon reasoning in science, finance, and engineering. Not small talk. This is what Shanda invests in. 🔗

@LidongBing Proud moment for the Shanda ecosystem. MiroMind represents exactly the kind of patient, mission-driven AI development we believe in — building systems that reason, not just respond. Congrats to @LidongBing and the entire team on the launch. 🎉

🚀**Today MiroMind is officially live on iOS and Android**. **Download Now!** 📱 MiroMind isn’t another AI assistant—it’s a **General-Purpose Solver** designed to reason through the world's most complex problems. Our goal is not to replace human work, but to help tackle problems humans have not yet been able to solve. This is still the beginning, but we’re excited to finally open it to the community. If you’re interested in AI reasoning, scientific discovery, or complex problem solving, we’d love to hear your feedback. ✅ **Live on iOS & Android** ✅ Plan → Execute → Verify → Improve ✅ High-stakes reasoning, now in your pocket. **Get the App :** 🔗 miromind.ai/download **Join the Discord:** 👉 discord.gg/F7EQFnYscV

🧠 Context windows are temporary. Memory is permanent. The next frontier of AI isn't just generation—it's retention, reasoning, and evolution over time. That's why Shanda is backing @evermind's Memory Genesis Competition 2026. Alongside @OpenAI and top AI organizations, we're calling on builders to create the memory infrastructure that will define agentic AI. Tracks: Agent+Memory, Platform Plugins, OS Infrastructure. Prizes: $80K+, revenue share, fast-track opportunities. This is where the future gets built. Join us. Jan–Apr 2026 | Global & Hybrid Register now below:

True value lies in solving real-world friction—Aging, Energy, Climate—not just simulating conversation. 🌍 Our founder @tianqiao_chen defines the critical shift from "Liberal Arts LLMs" to "Science LLMs." This move from Simulation to Discovery drives our entire investment thesis. 👇

The latest from Shanda's Founder, Tianqiao Chen - his philosophical series of A.I. and how it will impact the world.

Read the latest writing from Shanda Founder, Tianqiao Chen. His series examines AI in unexpected ways. "Genesis of Silicon: The Flood, Noah, and the Entropy of Tolerance" chennative.ai/Genesis-of-Sil…

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The latest from Tianqiao Chen, Shanda's Founder, Chairman and CEO... @TianqiaoChen/the-twilight-of-management-and-the-dawn-of-intelligence-rewriting-the-biological-genes-of-dea1559f8ff0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@TianqiaoChen/…

We're happy to support @CordanceM and their noninvasive focused ultrasound platform that safely and temporarily opens the blood-brain barrier to deliver therapies for brain tumors, etc bit.ly/4om153w

Exciting news from our founder today. linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Meet EverMemOS, the memory engine behind Tanka 🚀 🔹 Structured long-term memory 🔹 Agentic multi-round recall 🔹 Hybrid retrieval (BM25 + embedding + RRF) 🔹 Production-grade infra (Milvus + ES + Mongo + Redis) Now fully open source. If you're building agents, this is a huge unlock. 🔗 Github Repo github.com/EverMind-AI/Ev…

News from Shanda's founder...

Congratulations to Li Ye, PhD (Stanford/HHMI) — winner of the 2025 SfN Tianqiao & Chrissy Chen Young Investigator Award! 🎉 His tools (CLARITY, CAPTURE, HYBRID, CATCH) are transforming how we see the brain, linking activity, genes & behavior. 🧠✨ ye-lab.org Award supported by @ChenInstitute. #Neuroscience #Innovation

🎬✨ The Chen Institute Grand Mirror Studio is redefining science communication with AI-generated art + storytelling. From Beijing to Oscar-qualifying festivals, their work is reaching millions worldwide. Check it out on @Youtube @grandmirror-tcci?si=mmZTo7FRc0-_rYPd" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@grandmirror-t…

Many thanks to our fantastic partner, UC Berkeley College of Data Science and Society (@BerkeleyCDSS) for working with us on AIAS 2025, "The Chen Institute Symposium on AI Accelerated Science." Register for the Oct 27-28 event here: aias2025.org