Gary Gao

Co-Founder @ Chert · CS + Wharton @ Penn · Z-Fellow

Currently co-founder and CEO at Chert (YC P26). We build infra that lets AI agents use FaceTime and iMessage.

Previously studying CS + Business at Penn and Wharton.

Writing

The next generation of personal agents: channel-aware agents (chertnotes.substack.com)
(Substack) Why the channel an agent chooses (text, call, or FaceTime) is becoming the product.
Launch HN: Chert (YC P26): Twilio for iMessage (news.ycombinator.com)
(Hacker News) An API for businesses to send, receive, and automate iMessage conversations at scale.
Chert: iMessage infrastructure for trusted communication at scale (ycombinator.com)
(Y Combinator) Infrastructure for teams to send, receive, and automate conversations over iMessage using APIs.
Chert for FaceTime (producthunt.com)
(Product Hunt) Vapi for FaceTime: AI video agents in a few lines.
Old Sherds, New Tricks (penn.museum)
(Penn Museum) Ancient fragments meet modern algorithms in a student research project connecting archaeology and automation.
Developing the Next Generation of Energy-Efficient AI Infrastructure: A Summer in the Circuits Lab (curf.upenn.edu)
(Penn CURF) Designing and prototyping an oscillator-based circuit that performs AI tasks with less energy.
Pottery Progress (omnia.sas.upenn.edu)
(OMNIA) To simplify archaeological fieldwork, Benjamin Franklin scholar Gary Gao, C’28, W’28, turned to machine learning.