A former Huawei executive started a business in Shenzhen, making AI memory and raising hundreds of millions of yuan

Zhidongxi Author | Wang Han Editor | Xinyuan Zhidongxi reported on August 12 that according to Light Source Capital's disclosure today, recently, the AI ​​memory infrastructure startup "Shenzhen MemoraX AI" (MemoraX AI) announced the completion of a seed++ round of financing of several hundred million yuan, jointly led by Beiyang Haitang Fund, Shangshi Capital, and Renai Capital, with Guangyuan Capital serving as the exclusive financial advisor. This is the third round of large-scale financing that MemoraX AI has obtained in a short period of time, following the seed round in April this year and the seed + round in May. This round of financing will focus on investing in the underlying core technology of long-term memory for large models, and promote the standardized research and development and large-scale commercialization of memory modules for B-side and C-side interactive products. MemoraX AI was founded in March 2026 and focuses on building long-term memory capabilities for large models. Its founder and CEO is Hao Jianye, currently a professor at the Department of Intelligent Computing at Tianjin University, a doctoral supervisor, and the former director of Huawei's Noah's Ark Decision and Reasoning Laboratory. According to the Tianjin University Deep Reinforcement Learning Laboratory Hao Jianzhu’s homepage, he graduated from Harbin Institute of Technology with a bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D. from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on game intelligence. After graduating from the Ph.D., he also engaged in postdoctoral research in the MIT-Singapore University of Technology and Design joint project. In 2015, Hao Jianye returned to China to teach at Tianjin University, where he led the establishment of a deep reinforcement learning laboratory. This laboratory was also one of the earliest scientific research teams in China to systematically carry out research in this direction. Since then, Hao Jianye has continued to work hard in the academic field, becoming a national outstanding youth along the way, and was also selected into the top 2% of scientists in the world. He has published more than 100 papers at CCF-A international conferences in the field of artificial intelligence such as Nature Communications/Machine Intelligence and ICML/NeurIPS/ICLR. He has won 4 Best Paper Awards at international conferences, 4 NeurIPS conference competition champions, the first prize of the Scientific and Technological Progress Award of the Chinese Society of Image and Graphics (first), the first prize of the Natural Science Award of the China Electronics Society (second), etc. In the past two years, he has been working in I