Who are the young innovators who rejected Elon Musk’s offer to build the future of AI?

William Chen and Guan Wang, two young engineers from Michigan, turned down a multimillion-dollar offer from Elon Musk to pursue a more ambitious path. After creating OpenChat, a small yet powerful AI model, they developed Sapient Intelligence and the Hierarchical Reasoning Model, aiming to achieve artificial general intelligence by building a brain-inspired system that surpasses current AI limitations.