Yujian Tang
Yujian Tang is currently Community Manager at AICamp, Limited Partner at Apertu Capital, Venture Partner at Banyan, Investor at CopilotKit, and Founder at Cracking Gen AI. He founded Cracking Gen AI and OSS4AI, both of which are still running. His expertise includes AI, software development, and developer community engagement.
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Today on the show, we talked with Yujian Tang. He was on the show previously when he worked at Zilliz, when we talked about vector databases and RAG. He's since branched out on his own, building the tech startup scene in Seattle and organizing AI events all over the place. We talk about his latest venture, the Seattle Startup Summit, coming up on March 28th. They're still Early Bird Tickets available if you're interested. We also talk about AI models, the impact AI is having on programming, including our own programming projects and share our takes on some of the…
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Organizations
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CopilotKit Investor 2026–present · current
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Cracking Gen AI Founder 2026–present · current
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Gravitational Ventures General Partner 2026–present · current
Education
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Neuroscience (minor), Statistics (minor)
