# Jasper Zhang

> Jasper Zhang is the co-founder and CEO of Hyperbolic, an open-access AI cloud and GPU marketplace based in San Francisco. A math prodigy who won gold medals at the Chinese and Russian Mathematical Olympiads and finished a UC Berkeley math PhD in two years, he moved from quantitative research at Citadel Securities to blockchain research at Ava Labs before founding Hyperbolic in 2022 with Yuchen Jin. His mission: make large-scale AI compute affordable and available to anyone with an idea, from students to enterprises.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Hyperbolic
- **Organizations:** Hyperbolic (Hyperbolic Labs), Ava Labs, Citadel Securities
- **From:** China
- **Nationality:** Chinese
- **Education:** Ph.D. in Mathematics, UC Berkeley, B.S. in Mathematics, Peking University
- **Known for:** Completed a UC Berkeley mathematics PhD in two years, described as the fastest in the university's history, Gold medal, Chinese Mathematical Olympiad (high school), Gold medal, All-Russian Mathematical Olympiad (high school)

## Career timeline

- **2018** — Graduated with a B.S. in Mathematics from Peking University
- **2020** — Completed a Ph.D. in Mathematics at UC Berkeley in two years; thesis on hyperbolic manifolds
- **2020** — Joined Citadel Securities as a Quantitative Researcher
- **2021** — Became a Senior Blockchain Researcher at Ava Labs, focused on consensus protocols
- **2022** — Co-founded Hyperbolic with Yuchen Jin
- **2024** — Hyperbolic reached $20M total funding, closing a Series A

## Achievements

- Completed a UC Berkeley mathematics PhD in two years, described as the fastest in the university's history
- Gold medal, Chinese Mathematical Olympiad (high school)
- Gold medal, All-Russian Mathematical Olympiad (high school)
- First place, Chinese Mathematics Competition of College Students (2017)
- Two gold medals, Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition (2018 and 2020)
- Co-authored the Proof of Sampling Protocol (PoSP) for verifiable AI and decentralized compute
- Raised roughly $20M in total funding for Hyperbolic, including a Series A

## Latest updates

- **2024-12** — Hyperbolic closed a Series A, bringing total funding to about $20M.

## Links

- Website: https://hyperbolic.ai
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yuezhang95
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/zjasper666

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