[Former Head of Large-Scale Model at Shanghai AI Lab Raises Hundreds of Millions in Funding to Enable AI to Conduct Research and Improve Models Autonomously] Beating AI News: Super Evolution Intelligence, founded by Chen Kai, former head of the large-scale model center at the Shanghai AI Lab, recently completed a multi-million yuan angel round of financing, led by BlueRun Ventures, with participation from SenseTime Capital, Lenovo Capital, and other institutions. The company officially began operations at the end of August this year, aiming to create foundational models capable of autonomously conducting research and continuously improving themselves. Chen Kai previously led the development of the Shusheng series of large-scale models and has experience training models with trillions of parameters. However, in this venture, he doesn't plan to train a trillion-parameter model from scratch from the start. Instead, he will first perform post-training based on open-source models, starting with a scale of hundreds of billions of parameters, and then gradually explore in-process training and pre-training. The company is currently building a self-evolving training closed loop, preparing research data and a validation environment, and establishing a corresponding evaluation system. Chen Kai plans to launch his first model using this new paradigm by mid-2027. [Original Link]