Hi!! I’m the founder of Terminus Intelligence, building the Netscape of AI. Our mission is to make frontier intelligence capabilities universally accessible to anyone at anywhere.

Previously, I have spent my research journey creating general-purpose intelligent systems in digital space and in physical world. I was fortunate to work at CMU, working with Prof. Guanya Shi, and at Harvard, working with Prof. Yilun Du. I also spent time at Bytedance Seed, working on post-training for coding agents.

Beyond research, I’m passionate about the liberal arts, philosophy, history, and sociology. I’ve spent two years studying the works and thoughts of Max Weber. I’ve been playing the piano for about ten years and am a big fan of Western classical music, with Beethoven and Mahler being my favorite. I also enjoy traveling and photography.

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Jiawei Gao

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My research focuses on building general-purpose intelligent systems. I draw inspiration from how humans learn many skills efficiently, improve themselves autonomously, and cooperate and interact with one another effectively.

One direction I am particularly interested in is the online learning and adaptation capabilities that humans possess. Humans learn skills and knowledge on the fly and adapt to new scenarios with only a few examples. In the IMPACT project, we design mechanisms that enable robotic agents to adapt to different contact-rich scenarios on the fly, drawing inspiration from the human cerebellum. While developing coding agents at Seed 2.0, we designed similar mechanisms for post-training coding agents on large-scale, complex real-world tasks.

I believe future AI systems will resemble a Society of Minds. Therefore, I am interested in designing protocols and algorithms that enable multi-agent AI systems to communicate and cooperate effectively. In the CooHOI project, we study how multiple humanoid agents can collaborate on everyday household tasks and explore the principles of scalable embodied cooperation.

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Terminus Intelligence

Founder, CEO.

Building next-generation operating systems for Agents. Our mission is to make frontier intelligence capabilities universally accessible to anyone at anywhere.

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HumanoidVerse: A Multi-Simulator Framework for Humanoid Robot Sim-to-Real Learning

Co-Founder, Team-lead and Core Contributor.

HumanoidVerse is the codebase infrastructure for humanoid robot sim-to-real learning. It enabled expressive motion-tracking policy training on humanoid robots and helped drive the rapid progress seen in 2025.

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OpenDA Project: An Open-Source Platform for Coursework and Experiences for Tsinghua University Undergrads

Founder, Team-lead and Core Contributor.

OpenDA is a platform for students to share notes, experiences, insights, and advice from courses taken during undergraduate studies. The goal is to reduce information gaps and promote greater educational equity.

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Art of Mo Yu

The Course of "Introduction to the Art of Mo Yu"

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In 2021, after realizing that anyone could launch their own course use the “Cloud Classroom” technology, I decided—half seriously, half jokingly—to create one at Tsinghua University titled Introduction to the Art of Mo Yu, where “Mo Yu” is a Chinese slang term which basically means trying to have some fun despite a mountain of work. I framed it as a Dionysian rebellion against modern capitalist productivity—a Chaplinesque attempt to remain human within the gears of the machine. I later wrote a post explaining the motivation behind the course, and it quickly went viral. The original post and related coverage accumulated over 90 million views, and the topic remained trending No.1 on Chinese social media platform Zhihu for an entire week.

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Miscellaneous


In high school, I competed in the Physics Olympiad because I’ve always loved how physics helps us understand the world in a deeper and more fundamental way. I’m also really interested in cognitive science and psychology—they’re great for learning more about who we are, as humans, and I am so curious about how our mind learns so much from so little.

I believe that “the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all”. I agree with Max Weber that “Man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible. But to do that a man must be a leader, and not only a leader but a hero as well, in a very sober sense of the word.”

Updated at November 2026.