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Kevin Gu

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Co-Founder at ThirdLayer (YC W25)
📍 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Kevin is the Co-Founder and CTO of ThirdLayer, a YC W25 startup building Dex, an AI browser copilot. He leverages his background in quantitative trading from Jump Trading and machine learning research at labs like MIT-IBM to build applied AI products. He earned both his BA in Mathematics and MA in Statistics from Harvard University.

He is currently focused on building the core context engine for browser-based AI agents and speaks to other engineers about the challenges of deploying them in production.

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Current Role
Co-Founder
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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AI Agent Reliability
As CTO, he is building production-level AI agents and has given talks to other engineers about the challenges of scaling them reliably.
Human-AI Collaboration
His company, ThirdLayer, is explicitly building Dex as a new interface to improve how humans and AI work together within the browser.
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Career

Work history

Co-Founder
ThirdLayer (YC W25)
Quantitative Researcher
Jump Trading Group
Research
Center for Brains, Minds and Machines
ML Researcher
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
ML Researcher
QuantCo
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Education
BA in Mathematics & MA in Statistics
Harvard University
W25
Y Combinator
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