Apex Intelligence Raises ~$50M Angel Funding to Build Self-Evolving Foundation Models via Recursive Self-Improvement

Beijing-based Apex Intelligence, founded in June 2026 by Tsinghua AI professor Yongchao Chen, raised nearly $50M across angel and angel-plus rounds co-led by IDG Capital, LinkX Capital, XtalPi, plus the Zhongguancun Science City Fund and SCGC. The company builds self-evolving foundation models via recursive self-improvement, and claims its system already produced a full proof of a 30-year-old majorization conjecture.