About
Tom Zheng is a cofounder of Freesolo, a company focused on automating model training.
tom @tomzheng
Grab an API key, point your agent at the training package, and push a lightweight model past the frontier on your task. I'd love to walk through it with you: https://t.co/PnuemaNCNW Live now at https://t.co/Wari2pK1jd. Train on!
Jul 17, 2026 Β· β₯ 3
tom @tomzheng
Enterprise agent adoption today is concentrated in short, single-turn like routing, extraction, classification, tool calls. These workflows will soon run at trillion-token scale. These are exactly where a post-trained small model beats the frontier on cost and latency. We https://t.co/thcYCNmVfp
Jul 17, 2026 Β· β₯ 21
tom @tomzheng
great conversation to understand the data space from one of the most knowledgeable people https://t.co/rlvTiWC2rO
May 14, 2026 Β· β₯ 10
Founder at FreesoloYC X25
Intro paths
Tom went through Y Combinator (Spring 2025) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Pete Koomen, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran Freesolo's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
In turn, Tom can intro founders to Freesolo's investors below.
Freesolo's investors Β· 1
Co-founders at Freesolo
Experience
- FreesoloCo-Foundercurrent2025 β present
- SDx at UC San DiegoAdvisor2024 β 2025San Diego, California, United States
- Cerebras SystemsAI Fellow2024 β 2025
Education
- Y CombinatorX25
- UC San DiegoAerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering2024 β 2028
- Crescent School2016 β 2024
Skills & more
Languages English Β· French
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Same school
Also attended Y Combinator1,464
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Also attended UC San Diego217
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Shared employers
Also worked at SDx at UC San Diego1
Also worked at Cerebras Systems13
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