Bill Jiao is Co-Founder of General Instinct (YC P26), a cutting-edge AI startup deploying frontier models onto edge devices for physical AI applications such as robotics, drones, and mobile hardware.

Bill studied at Boston University and contributed to Siemens' first multimodal foundation model, demonstrating deep expertise in applied AI systems at an enterprise scale.

As a high school junior, Bill secured 2 patents on tardigrade proteins, reflecting a rare combination of scientific curiosity and early-stage innovation that continues to define his work.

Bill co-founded General Instinct alongside ex-DeepMind researcher Guanming Wang, with the company accepted into Y Combinator's P26 batch and backed with $500K in funding.

General Instinct's flagship product, Instinct Edge, compresses and deploys large vision-language models onto constrained hardware, achieving production benchmarks such as a 15B parameter VLM running fully offline on an iPhone 13.