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Jerry Wu

Co-founder & CEO, Halluminate

Search every verified Jerry Wu interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Jerry Wu, co-founder and CEO of Halluminate, appeared in two recent public discussions about the company's work. In an October 2026 YC Fireside chat, he described Halluminate as building "frontier RL environments and benchmarks" to improve AI models' performance in non-coding knowledge work, starting with financial services. He said the company, which has fewer than 10 employees, works with four of the top five closed-source US AI labs and recently raised a $30 million Series A led by Oak HC/FT. Wu discussed the importance of high-quality environments and verification in model training, noting that "the quality of your environment is directly determining the quality of the model that's post-trained on that environment." He also mentioned an internal concept he called "Moore's law of RL environments," stating that the complexity of training environments roughly doubles every six to eight months. In an earlier October 2026 appearance on TVN, Wu discussed topics including AI video game mods, Chinese car sales in Britain, and Fiat's microcar. He also commented on the value of data and research services, saying that "the value of data research labs like ourselves comes from improving the models on something that it's not good at today." He used an analogy comparing his work to game design, describing environments as "games that are used to teach the models specific tasks in the verticals or domains that we're experts in."

Recent appearances

  • Minecraft AI Mods, Should You Sell Your Data, Construction Paper Really Fell Off

    October 05, 2026 · 📺 TBPN

    01:17 AI Video Game Mods 18:04 𝕏 Timeline Reactions 37:13 Chinese Cars Take Over Britain 43:49 Fiat's $15k Microcar 57:09 Sean Frank, CEO of Ridge, discusses the company’s rapid growth, his decision not to sell its business data to AI firms, and how AI is transforming e-commerce operations, advertising, and creative production. He also explores agent-driven shopping, TikTok marketing, consumer spending, celebrity partnerships, and Ridge’s potential expansion into physical retail. 01:29:21 Linda Du, president, COO, and co-founder of Valon Technologies, discusses the company’s $150 million Serie…

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  • The Training Ground for AI Knowledge Workers

    October 01, 2026 · 📺 YC Root Access

    Halluminate (YC S25) is building reinforcement learning environments and benchmarks to help AI models do knowledge work beyond coding, starting with finance. With a team of fewer than 10 people, the company works with four of the top five closed-source US AI labs and recently raised a $30 million Series A led by Oak HC/FT. In this Fireside, co-founders Jerry Wu and Wyatt Marshall sit down with YC Partner Jon Xu to share how testing browser agents led them to building simulations where models practice tasks like completing financial spreadsheets. They explain why accurate scoring and expert re…

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  • The Current State of Browser Agents - Jerry Wu and Wyatt Marshall

    June 03, 2025 · 📺 AI Engineer

    Browser agents are here. But beyond simple sample use cases (I'm looking at you flight booking demo), are they as good as advertised? In this talk, we introduce Web Bench, a new benchmark we've developed that rigorously tests browser agents across 450+ websites on real-world action based objectives such as info extraction, login/auth, form filling, and others. We'll dive into the results, unpack some unexpected discoveries, and discuss broader implications for the future of general purpose agents. You'll walk away with practical insights into: 1. data-driven understanding of the capabilit…

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  • Halluminate ft. Jerry Wu

    August 14, 2024 · 📺 AI Rebels Podcast

    In this episode, we dive into the critical world of AI evaluation with a special guest, Jerry, who shares insights on how Halluminate is pioneering reliable end-to-end AI assessments. Jerry unpacks the intricacies of agent architecture, the current limitations of AI, and how Halluminate is poised to address these challenges. Tune in to discover the future of AI through the lens of innovation and practical solutions. https://halluminate.ai/

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