Founder · Executive · Researcher
Yuan Cao
YC
Co-founder and CEO at Unreasonable Labs
Cao helped give Gemini its ability to work across text, images, audio, and very long documents. He later co-founded Unreasonable Labs to build agents that form and test ideas over long tasks, aiming beyond fluent answers toward systems that can discover new knowledge.
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Background
Current role
Co-founder and CEO Jun 2025-presentUnreasonable Labs
Unreasonable LabsPreviously
Apr 2023-May 2025Senior Staff Research Scientist, 
Google DeepMind
Google DeepMindNov 2017-Apr 2023Staff Research Scientist, Manager — Google Brain, 
Google
GoogleJun 2017-Nov 2017Principal Architect, 
Baidu
Baidu
Johns Hopkins University
Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityAbout this data
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