Software Jerry Wu
| Jerry Wu | |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur, software engineer |
|---|---|
| Known for | Founder and CEO of Halluminate |
| Education | Cornell University (Computer Science and Economics) |
Jerry Wu is an American entrepreneur and software engineer who is the co-founder and CEO of Halluminate, a company that builds data and reinforcement learning (RL) environments to train computer-use AI agents. Halluminate is a member of the Y Combinator Summer 2025 batch and is based in San Francisco.[1]
Career
Before founding Halluminate, Wu led product and research at Capital One Labs, where he launched one of the first AI agents in financial services and co-authored three patents.[2] He studied Computer Science and Economics at Cornell University.
Wu founded Halluminate to address bottlenecks facing foundation model labs and enterprises seeking to improve browser- and computer-use AI agents. The company's premise is that knowledge workers spend the majority of their workday using computers, browsers, and software tools, and that AI agents must learn to operate these same tools to deliver practical value. Halluminate identifies two key resource constraints that impede progress in this area: the lack of high-quality datasets for benchmarking and evaluation, and the absence of realistic sandbox environments for safe testing and training of agents.[3]
Halluminate offers an evaluation service that combines proprietary datasets with expert annotations to help customers identify failure modes in their computer- and browser-use AI. The company also provides a platform with a catalog of fully managed sandbox environments — such as simulated versions of enterprise software — enabling customers to test and train agents at scale. According to the company, its customers include leading computer-use model labs.
The company has a particular focus on financial services, offering highly realistic computer and tool-use environments designed for economically valuable workflows in investment banking, private equity, and related fields. Halluminate has also released open-source tools, including Westworld, a project hosted on GitHub, and public benchmarks such as BrowserBench and Web Bench for evaluating browser-use AI performance.
References
- ↑ "Halluminate – Y Combinator". 'Y Combinator}'. Retrieved 2026-03-19.
- ↑ "Jerry Wu (CEO)". 'Antigravity Capital}'. Retrieved 2026-03-19.
- ↑ "Halluminate". 'Halluminate}'. Retrieved 2026-03-19.