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Kanjun Qiu

CEO and co-founder, Imbue

Kanjun Qiu is a co-founder and the CEO of Imbue, a company founded in 2021 that builds open software for AI agents people can understand, modify and verify, including the Sculptor, Vet and mngr tools for coding agents. Qiu earlier co-founded and led Sourceress, an AI recruiting company, and was Chief of Staff at Dropbox.12

At a glance

Current role
CEO and co-founder
Company
Imbue
Sector
Company
Work listed
2
Sources cited
8
Profile reviewed

Career

Qiu worked as Chief of Staff at Dropbox, then co-founded and served as CEO of Sourceress, an AI recruiting company that went through Y Combinator. Qiu also co-authored Sew Electric, a book on programming with sewable electronics, and worked on hardware at the MIT Media Lab.2

Qiu co-founded Imbue with Josh Albrecht in 2021, and Imbue's about page lists Qiu as CEO and co-founder. With Albrecht, Qiu also hosts podcast conversations with deep learning researchers.12

Products and projects

Imbue builds open tools meant to let people understand, modify and verify the software agents they use. Its products include Sculptor, an open-source app for running coding agents in parallel; Vet, a local code review tool for catching coding agents' mistakes; and mngr, a command-line tool for managing many coding agents across hosts and sandboxes.1345

Research

In 2022 the Imbue team, led on the paper by first author Josh Albrecht with Kanjun Qiu as last author, released Avalon, a benchmark for generalization in reinforcement learning built from procedurally generated 3D worlds.6

Work and contributions

  • Sculptor Open-source code

    Leads the company that released Sculptor, an open-source, MIT-licensed app for running coding agents in parallel.371

  • Sew Electric

    Co-author of a book that teaches programming to young learners through sewable electronics.2

Timeline

  1. Co-founded Imbue, originally named Generally Intelligent.18
  2. Co-authored Avalon, a benchmark for RL generalization using procedurally generated worlds.6
  3. Imbue opened the repository for Sculptor, its MIT-licensed app for parallel coding agents.7

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.

  • Co-founder and CEO, Sourceress2
  • Chief of Staff, Dropbox2

Where they work

  • Imbue 3 people in the wiki

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References

8 sources · profile reviewed Oct 21, 2026 · data updated Oct 21, 2026

  1. About Imbue — team and foundingImbue · Official page · accessed Oct 21, 2026 · reviewed Oct 21, 2026
  2. Kanjun Qiu — personal siteKanjun Qiu · Official page · accessed Oct 21, 2026 · reviewed Oct 21, 2026
  3. Sculptor — Imbue product pageImbue · Official page · accessed Oct 21, 2026 · reviewed Oct 21, 2026
  4. Vet — Imbue product pageImbue · Official page · accessed Oct 21, 2026 · reviewed Oct 21, 2026
  5. mngr — Imbue product pageImbue · Official page · accessed Oct 21, 2026 · reviewed Oct 21, 2026
  6. Avalon: A Benchmark for RL Generalization Using Procedurally Generated Worlds (arXiv 2210.13417)arXiv · Paper · published Oct 24, 2022 · accessed Oct 21, 2026 · reviewed Oct 21, 2026
  7. imbue-ai/sculptor repository (MIT license)Imbue (GitHub repository) · Repository · published Aug 7, 2025 · accessed Oct 21, 2026 · reviewed Oct 21, 2026
  8. Josh Albrecht — personal siteJosh Albrecht · Official page · accessed Oct 21, 2026 · reviewed Oct 21, 2026