Kai “Sam” Gu

I'm Sam Gu Kai on the ID. Sam in the room. , a design engineer who also takes photographs. CS at UT Austin The University of Texas at Austin B.S. in Computer Science, entering with junior standing. Finis-Welch full-ride scholar. Austin, TX · Since 2026 .

I made Caret Caret Press Tab in any macOS text field to finish the sentence, or to run the action it suggests. 1st place · Cursor x AITX · 2026 , CogPortal CogPortal Scores capstone code against hidden test sets, however the team named its functions. MIT BWSI · 2026 for MIT BWSI MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute Lead teaching assistant for Cog*Works, the machine-learning course. I advised five capstone papers into IEEE MIT URTC. Lead TA · Summer 2026 , FridgeLuck FridgeLuck Photograph your fridge and get recipes; it only asks about the ingredients it isn't sure of. 2nd place · HackTAMS · 2026 , and Sillion Sillion I founded it: an AI teaching assistant for K-12 classrooms that answers from live course data. Founder · a16z speedrun · 2025-2026 .

Now on the tech team at Pax Historia Pax Historia A YC-backed grand strategy game where AI plays out whatever history you rewrite. Tech team · via Convergent Forge · Fall 2026 , a game where you rewrite history.

  1. 1 1A A free six-week AI bootcamp I co-founded, with a course site and grader I built for it.
  2. 2 2A Upload a syllabus and get practice questions and flashcards; it tracks which concepts you keep missing.
  3. 3 3A Matches people at an event by what they care about, then drops them into a video room with something to talk about.
  4. 4 4A An AI teaching assistant for K-12 classrooms that answers from the course's live Canvas data.
  5. 5 5A A way to measure when a continual-learning model latches onto a shortcut and can't let go of it.
  6. 6 6A Photograph your fridge and get recipes; it only asks about the ingredients it isn't sure of.
  1. 7 7A Scores a team's capstone code against hidden test sets, however the team named its functions.
  2. 8 8A Press Tab in any macOS text field to finish the sentence. Press it on an action and it runs the workflow.
  3. 9 9A Walk the wall by your electric meter with an iPhone and find out whether a home battery fits there.