Kanjun Qiu
Co-founder and CEO of Imbue, which builds open tools for running and verifying AI coding agents
Kanjun Qiu is a co-founder and the CEO of Imbue, a company founded in 2021 that builds open software for AI agents people can understand, modify and verify, including the Sculptor, Vet and mngr tools for coding agents. Qiu earlier co-founded and led Sourceress, an AI recruiting company, and was Chief of Staff at Dropbox.31
Career
Qiu worked as Chief of Staff at Dropbox, then co-founded and served as CEO of Sourceress, an AI recruiting company that went through Y Combinator. Qiu also co-authored Sew Electric, a book on programming with sewable electronics, and worked on hardware at the MIT Media Lab.1
Qiu co-founded Imbue with Josh Albrecht in 2021, and Imbue's about page lists Qiu as CEO and co-founder. With Albrecht, Qiu also hosts podcast conversations with deep learning researchers.31
Products and projects
Imbue builds open tools meant to let people understand, modify and verify the software agents they use. Its products include Sculptor, an open-source app for running coding agents in parallel; Vet, a local code review tool for catching coding agents' mistakes; and mngr, a command-line tool for managing many coding agents across hosts and sandboxes.3456
Research
In 2022 the Imbue team, led on the paper by first author Josh Albrecht with Kanjun Qiu as last author, released Avalon, a benchmark for generalization in reinforcement learning built from procedurally generated 3D worlds.8
Work
Sculptor (external site: github.com)Open-source code
Leads the company that released Sculptor, an open-source, MIT-licensed app for running coding agents in parallel.473
Sew Electric
Co-author of a book that teaches programming to young learners through sewable electronics.1
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