Wu Suk
Woosuk Kwon is the co-founder and CTO of Inferact, a startup focused on AI inference. He co-created and co-leads the vLLM project, a widely adopted open-source inference engine for large language models. He is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at UC Berkeley, advised by Ion Stoica, and previously held positions at Thinking Machines Lab and Google DeepMind.
“When Thinking Machine Labs was founded, the founders invited him to lead infrastructure. Later, Thinking Machine Labs' valuation kept soaring.”
Source→“We asked him: if you don't co-found with us, you'll earn a lot of money, but ten years later if the vLLM project fails, will you be happy or not? ... The hardest person to recruit to the founding team — had offers from XAI, Thinking Machine Labs, and Google DeepMind.”
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