Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

The Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences is a research institution whose alumni and researchers appear across China's AI and semiconductor startup landscape. In one profile, a '97-born founder building a Personal Agent noted that his engineering lead holds a master's degree from the institute and previously worked at Tencent and Alibaba . More prominently, Li Yan — founder of Xiaobai and a core architect of Kuaishou's AI system — completed his graduate studies there after Huazhong University of Science and Technology, before joining Tencent in 2015 and then Kuaishou when it was still a 30-person operation working out of a residential building . The institute also feeds into hard-tech ventures: Suanniao Technology, an AI chip company that raised 1 billion yuan targeting large-model inference, counts among its core scientists graduates from the institute, where co-founder Wang Fuquan previously conducted postdoctoral research in computer architecture under Hu Weiwu, chief scientist of the domestic CPU "Loongson" .