Minlie Huang
黄民烈
Minlie Huang is a professor at Tsinghua University's Department of Computer Science and Technology and a leading researcher in affective computing for machine dialogue, described by Oasis Capital as a top global scientist in that field . He founded Lingxin Intelligence (聆心智能), a startup focused on making AI trustworthy, controllable, and customizable , launching its first product AI Utopia (AI乌托邦) in 2022 . The company raised an angel+ round in late 2022 that included Zhipu AI among its investors, followed by a Pre-A round in early 2023 . In a 2023 interview with Jazzyear (甲子光年), Huang framed AGI-era AI as needing personality, character, emotion, and style to build deep emotional and social bonds with humans .
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Oasis Capital in Conversation with Professor Minlie Huang: To Know What You Know and What You Don't — AGI Included
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