According to 1M AI News monitoring, Maxgent, an AI agent company founded by Tian Zhi, former Senior Algorithm Scientist at ByteDance Seed (Level 4-1), has officially emerged. On the evening of March 12, the company released job postings seeking backend, client-side, frontend engineers, Agent product managers, and operations personnel. Maxgent is focused on the OpenClaw direction in overseas markets and has secured investment from Wang Huiwen, co-founder of Meituan.

Tian Zhi earned his undergraduate degree from Sichuan University and his Ph.D. from the University of Adelaide in Australia, where he studied under Professor Shen Chunhua. He is a renowned figure in the field of object detection, being the original proposer of the FCOS algorithm. In 2021, he joined Meituan as an Applied Scientist. In early 2023, he transitioned to "Beyond Light Year," founded by Wang Huiwen. After Beyond Light Year was acquired by Meituan, he moved into the ByteDance Seed team, where he played a key role in the development of the video generation model Seedance. This entrepreneurial venture marks Tian Zhi’s second time following Wang Huiwen. The core team also includes the founder of Chatbox.