About
Chrisjan Wust is co-founder and CTO of Sphinx. He previously co-founded and sold Adorno AI, and served as Head of Engineering at RelyComply, where he led engineering efforts as the company scaled to $12M ARR and secured a major banking client partnership.
Chrisjan Wust @chriswust
As more independent benchmarks come in on Kimi K3, it's becoming clear that behind all the hype, there is an incredible model. After the whole Mythos/Fable drama, I'm just happy intelligence is indeed going to be democratized, and cost $3 to read the LotR trilogy. Below are some https://t.co/0Q94z2kvkw
Jul 17, 2026 Β· β₯ 1
Chrisjan Wust @chriswust
Did Anthropic just solve long context? SWE-bench is saturated - can be completely ignored. Long context is what matters in long coding tasks, and Sonnet 4.6 improves that by 9x. Best part is OpenAI built this benchmark. https://t.co/UcpoxhF99H
Feb 17, 2026 Β· β₯ 3
Chrisjan Wust @chriswust
Today China dropped their best model yet. It's the Deepseek of 2026, this time from Tiktok's parent company. I've compiled 50+ benchmarks here, and it's tight. https://t.co/TV9bhAqgbp
Feb 14, 2026 Β· β₯ 3
Founder at SphinxYC F24
Intro paths
Chrisjan went through Y Combinator (Fall 2024) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Nicolas Dessaigne, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran Sphinx's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
In turn, Chrisjan can intro founders to Sphinx's investors below.
Sphinx's investors Β· 3
Co-founders at Sphinx
Experience
- SphinxCo-Foundercurrent2024 β presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Adorno AICo-Founder2024Paris, Γle-de-France, France
- RelyComplyHead of Engineering2019 β 2023City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
- TheslData Scientist2018 β 2019Somerset West, Western Cape, South Africa
- FreelancingWeb Developer2010 β 2019City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
- FreelancingVideo Producer2014 β 2017Stellenbosch, South Africa
- Techairos ConsultingFull-stack Developer2017 β 2018Stellenbosch, South Africa
Education
- Stellenbosch UniversityBachelor's Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering2014 β 2017
- Stellenberg HighHigh School2009 β 2013
- Zhejiang UniversityInternational Summerschool: Entrepreneurship in China, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies2018
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Machine LearningData MiningData AnalyticsGitLanguages Afrikaans Β· English
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