# Steve Gu

> Steve Gu is a computer scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded AiFi with Ying Zheng in 2016 and served as its CEO. After work at Apple and Google and a Duke computer-science PhD, he helped develop checkout-free retail technology. He is now co-founder and CEO of bitHuman, which develops interactive AI characters.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at bitHuman
- **Organizations:** AiFi Inc., bitHuman, Apple, Google, Duke University
- **From:** Shanghai, China
- **Education:** B.Eng. in Computer Science, Tsinghua University, M.A. in Computer Science, Duke University, PhD in Computer Science, Duke University
- **Known for:** Co-founded AiFi and led its early development of checkout-free retail technology., Co-authored computer-vision research with Carlo Tomasi and Ying Zheng., Led AiFi when it won NVIDIA’s 2018 Inception enterprise award.

## Career timeline

- **2007** — Earned his bachelor’s degree at Tsinghua University.
- **2012** — Completed his PhD at Duke under Carlo Tomasi.
- **Before 2016** — Worked on input technology at Apple and Google Glass at Google.
- **2016** — Co-founded AiFi with Ying Zheng.
- **2018** — AiFi won the enterprise category of NVIDIA’s Inception Awards.
- **2022** — AiFi announced a $65 million Series B; Steve Carlin became CEO in August.
- **2023** — Co-founded bitHuman and became its CEO.
- **2024** — Discussed bitHuman’s interactive agents at NRF in a January interview.

## Achievements

- Co-founded AiFi and led its early development of checkout-free retail technology.
- Co-authored computer-vision research with Carlo Tomasi and Ying Zheng.
- Led AiFi when it won NVIDIA’s 2018 Inception enterprise award.
- Led AiFi during its March 2022 $65 million Series B announcement.
- Co-founded bitHuman, an interactive AI character company.

## Latest updates

- **2024-01** — Identified as bitHuman co-founder and CEO in an Enterprise Times interview, discussing NRF agents.
- **2026-06** — His PyPI profile lists bitHuman software projects, including a Python SDK release dated June 23, 2026.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-gu-ab143318
- GitHub: https://github.com/sgu-bithuman

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