William Hu

About

👋 Hi, my name is William! I'm a Product Engineer on the Applied AI team at Anthropic, where I partner with our early-stage startup customers.

Before Anthropic, I founded RiskAngle, an AI platform to summarize medical records for law firms. I closed our first clients, built the product end-to-end, and got funded by Y Combinator.

In my free time, I enjoy playing volleyball, watching anime, and solving crossword puzzles. If you're interested in connecting, please reach out via LinkedIn or email.

Experience

Anthropic - Advancing frontier models, building core products, and partnering with startups

RiskAngle (YC S24) - Founded an AI company to summarize medical records for law firms

Retool - Shipped Retool API, Retool File Storage, and Retool AI

Robinhood - Built infrastructure for referrals, promotions, and crypto

Google - Contributed to OpenTelemetry

Investments

I'm an angel investor who invests in early-stage startups. I mostly write checks for companies building developer tools or vertical AI.

Projects

Learning to Orient in Group Conversations via Social State Abstraction - Trained deep learning models to predict orientation in group conversations from abstract social cues

Exploring Recurrent Neural Network Architectures for Multi-Modal Score Following - Trained recurrent neural networks to follow musical scores from visual and auditory inputs

LLAMA: Learning Latent trAnsforMations for generative style trAnsfer - Trained variational autoencoders for generative style transfer (the original LLAMA architecture 😉)

Improving Low-Resource Cross-lingual Document Retrieval by Reranking with Deep Bilingual Representations - Investigated cross-lingual information retrieval via deep learning models and bilingual embeddings

Fun Facts

- I had a YouTube channel where I collected and traded Pokémon cards.

- In high school, I won $20k for my research on dental pulp stem cells.

- My high school volleyball team won the Division II NorCal championships twice.

- I didn't have an Instagram account until September 2025.

- I can speak 4 languages.