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Avikalp Gupta
Member #189Basic · freeBetaL1Founder & CTO, x1025
Founder, x1025 | Builder @ byok-relay, wildest-ai, Vibinex, skyline3d, free-time, alokit.in, typing-analyst, WhatsApp-ai-filter | Editor of “Wrong by Default”: a book on AI production engineer from AI’s POV
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About
Avikalp Gupta is the Founder and CTO of x1025, based in San Francisco, and a member of South Park Commons. Avikalp previously worked at Microsoft Research, was an early employee at GetMega, and founded Vibinex, an open-source code review tool, after studying computer science at IIT Kanpur. Avikalp also builds open-source AI tools such as byok-relay, which lets frontend-only apps call LLMs using people's own API keys.
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Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
