Richard Zhou — CEO at Aemon

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Co-founder at Aemon (YC W26). Waterloo CS dropout. International medalist in math & robotics.

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Aemon beat Google DeepMind's record on $10 of compute. The next target is an entire job category.

Aemon is an autonomous research engineer that runs the full R&D loop without human intervention, reading literature, generating thousands of solution variants, and evolving the strongest candidates through successive iterations. The company set a new world record on the NP-hard circle packing proble

6/26/2026, 11:16 PM PDTBy Zero G Talentautonomous research engineerAemon AIdefense tech funding

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