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FOUNDERROLEBATCHINDUSTRYLOCATIONTEAMX_url
Jay ChooiRobocurveFounder/CEOSummer 2026IndustrialsSan Francisco, United States2https://x.com/chooi_jeq
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Jay Chooi
Founder/CEO·Robocurve
PRIMARY INFO
RoleFounder/CEO
Team size2
BatchSummer 2026
LocationSan Francisco, United States
Company statusActive
StageEarly
BIO
Founder and CEO of Robocurve. MA Statistics and BA CS/Math from Harvard. Jay builds evals of frontier AI and forecasts its progress. Previously Research Fellow at MATS, researcher at the UK AI Security Institute, and top contributor to Inspect Evals, the UK government's AI eval framework. Published at ACM EC, ICML, ACL, and EMNLP. Called the 2024 election correctly in all 50 states. Won a Rhodes Scholarship. Gold medal at the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Ex-company, school and discipline below are derived from this bio. Nothing is inferred when the bio is missing.
BACKGROUND
Credentialsnone mentioned
DisciplineResearcherKeyword match from the bio text, not a classifier.
TRACK RECORD
First YC company on record
COMPANY CONTEXT
RobocurveEvaluating robots in the real world.
IndustryIndustrials
Websiterobocurve.org
Team size2
LocationSan Francisco, United States
BatchSummer 2026
