You Kaizhao

Kaichao You is a core maintainer of vLLM, the leading open-source LLM inference engine, and a co-founder of Inferact, a startup building a universal AI inference layer. He is known for his work on making LLM inference faster and cheaper through the vLLM project, which runs on hundreds of thousands of GPUs worldwide and is used in production by major technology companies. Inferact, backed by a16z, Sequoia, and ZhenFund, aims to grow vLLM as the world's AI inference engine while developing a next-generation commercial inference engine.