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On the next stage of the big model, we found a Chinese Neo Lab that does continuous learning.
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Source: 36氪
Text | Wang Xinyi Editor | Zhang Yuxin It was 9:30 pm in Beijing when I met Chen Kaijie, the founder of Mind Lab. He had already met with investors all day long. Chen Kaijie is a serial entrepreneur. He dropped out of Duke University and worked on the AI interactive story platform MidReal. He also launched the Personal Agent application Macaron, which topped the Product Hunt daily list on the day it was launched. In October 2025, Mind Lab was established with a team of about 30 people. Mind Lab founder Andrew Chen has co-published FireAct papers with Yao Shunyu. The team mainly comes from companies and universities such as xAI, DeepMind, DeepSeek, ByteDance Seed, MIT and Tsinghua University. They reappeared in the public eye as Neo Lab. The direction they are betting on is highly consistent with the continuous learning direction emphasized by Turing Award winner Richard Sutton, the father of reinforcement learning, and Mira Murati, former CTO of OpenAI. A few days ago, at the main forum on the first day of WAIC 2026, Sutton gave a speech, emphasizing that the core route of next-generation AI is experience-driven, and the static annotation data model has reached the ceiling. DeepSeek has also recently brought continuous learning into more people's vision, claiming that the problem that Agent needs to solve in the future is continuous learning, which is also a capability that the next generation model must have. It can be seen that post-training and continuous learning have increasingly become the key points for evaluating model capabilities in the next stage. Mind Lab released the Macaron-V1-Preview model last month, and since then the business has been rapidly pushed forward: just 2 weeks after commercialization started, ARR reached 10 million US dollars. The composition of Macaron-V1-Preview is: On GLM-5.1, 5 LoRA expert modules with about 1B parameters are mounted. Although it is only a preview model, Macaron-V1-Preview has many