Robert Yang

Founder & CEO

Co-founder and CEO of Altera (Fundamental Research Labs). Former tenure-track chaired assistant professor at MIT. Computational neuroscientist renowned for deep neural network models of the brain.

Overview

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Founder & CEO

Companies

1 company
Altera $44M
Private Founder & CEO

Applied AI research company building autonomous, collaborative, and socially intelligent AI agents (digital human beings). Founded by computational neuroscientists from MIT, Stanford, and Google. Gained prominence through Project Sid, deploying 1,000+ AI agents in Minecraft who autonomously developed specialized roles, economies, and governance. Now Fundamental Research Labs.

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