Jiuqi Wang

Ph.D. Student @UVA | Student Researcher @GoogleDeepMind | Ex Research Scientist Intern @Pokee_AI

[Pokee AI @Pokee_AI]

🚨 Contest Announcement: We’re giving out cash prizes for the best new agents published in the Pokee Marketplace in the next 72 hours!

🥇 $300 for 1st Place • 🥈 $200 for 2nd Place • 🥉 $100 for 3rd Place

PLUS:
🥇 1 year of Pokee Pro
🥈 6 months of Pokee Pro
🥉 3 months of Pokee Pro
🎖️ Top 10 featured in marketplace homepage
🎙️ Winner Twitter Space with Pokee team
🧠 Private early feature access

Build something useful, weird, powerful — ship it fast. 👇

[Pokee AI @Pokee_AI]

Pokee AI has been named to The Agentic List 2026 — the top 120 trending agentic AI companies most admired by industry executives 🏆 Selected by enterprise leaders. Backed by research. Built by @FirsthandVC, @NYSE, and @theCUBE.

New agent capability incoming in weeks.

Onwards! 🚀
#TheAgenticList2026 #AgenticAI

[Pokee AI @Pokee_AI]

In case you missed last week's livestream introducing Pokee's newly launched E-Commerce Strategy Agent, be sure to watch it below!

Our head of product showcases a quick demo of the agent so that you can know exactly what you need to do to get started, followed by a great chat with our founder Bill Zhu!

Tune in for a glimpse into Pokee's future plans as well as current capabilities. We have even more exciting updates on the way soon, so be sure to follow us for updates.

[Pokee AI @Pokee_AI]

Today, Pokee’s releasing the first specialized agent, originally built for Google, as part of our new Agent Marketplace! The Agent serves as an ecommerce strategy analyst and saves 98% of analysis time and 97% of cost.
Access it here: https://t.co/w7tL8b28jD
More info in the 🧵

[Zheqing (Bill) Zhu @ZheqingZhu]

Happy New Year! The best way to start a year is to hire the best people for our grand mission! Please help repost to your network!

At Pokee AI, we're building efficient foundation agents that scale infinitely in workflows and tool calls. As we scale in 2026, we're looking for exceptional talent to join our team.

We're hiring:
🔹 Senior Systems/Backend Engineer
🔹 AI Engineer
🔹 Full-Stack Software Engineer

All positions are remote (US/Singapore preferred). If you're passionate about pushing the boundaries of AI and want to make a real impact, we'd love to hear from you.

Check out our open roles here: https://t.co/cm9gCXQqWO

Don't see a perfect fit? We're always looking for exceptional talent—reach out at [email protected].

Here's to building something extraordinary together in 2026! 🚀

[Pokee AI @Pokee_AI]

We were proud to sponsor last week’s Silicon Valley Tech for Good Basecamp, bringing together technologists and nonprofits driving real impact across our community.

At Pokee, we believe building transformative AI means more than advancing research — it’s about using technology to serve people, organizations, and the communities around us.

As we continue to scale, we’re committed to supporting initiatives that make tech more accessible and impactful for everyone.

A huge thank you to the @Tech4goodnpo team and all the inspiring nonprofit leaders who made the event a success.

If you’re using AI to create positive change, show us what you’re building — we’d love to support and learn from your work.

[Zheqing (Bill) Zhu @ZheqingZhu]

Pokee just turned 1 yr old last week. We landed our 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗠𝗲𝗴𝗮7 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘆 (not Meta :D), attracted ~20𝗞 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀 in just 4 months, 3𝘅 oversubscribed our $12𝗠 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 2 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀, shipped a 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲-𝗼𝗳-𝘁𝗵𝗲-𝗮𝗿𝘁 7𝗕 Deep Research model with 1.6𝗞 𝗚𝗶𝘁𝗛𝘂𝗯 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 2 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝘀, and built a community of 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 2,000 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 actively engaging with us across Pokee AI’s channels.

The past year has been the most intense and rewarding journey I’ve ever been on.
Last October, almost no one believed in our mission to build the foundation agent through reinforcement learning (RL). RL wasn’t popular then. It wasn’t what the market was talking about. But we had conviction.

And soon enough, that conviction started to get validated.

On March 3rd, before “general AI agents” were even trending, we showed the world a prototype of a generalized agentic system — one that could turn any manual workflow into an automated workflow through our own RL model.

Within two months, 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 3,000 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 joined our waitlist.

It was still buggy and fragile, but users started to see those “wow” moments — when content moved seamlessly between platforms, research was done exactly as they’d want, and analyses ran faster than they thought possible.

Then, almost naturally, investors started showing up. I learned that you rarely need to fundraise — the right kind of fundraising happens in-bound, when the market aligns with your value.

In just two days, we had multiple term sheets on the table — without much pitching. We were still a team of four.

Since then, we’ve been scaling, hiring, learning, and debating — especially about one big question:

Is Pokee’s model and agentic software better suited for enterprises or prosumers?

We talked to dozens of businesses and hundreds of professionals. The truth is, both groups want the same thing: repeatable workflows that can be delegated to AI — for research, sales outreach, social media ops, financial analysis, document processing, and more. The scale might differ, but the core need is identical.

So we decided not to choose.

We build for both — learning from one side to improve the other.

Last week, exactly on our one-year mark, we launched v0 of our product. Within days, 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 1,500 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁, 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 5𝗠 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲𝘀. We won 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗛𝘂𝗻𝘁 #3 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆 completely through organic community traffic. Our website traffic grew 10x, and signups skyrocketed.

None of this would have been possible without our research and model advancements — the true power behind Pokee AI. We’ve pushed the limits of tool use, deep research capabilities, and multi-task workflows in ways that keep surprising even us.

Today, Pokee AI is a startup that owns the full pipeline — from research lab to production AI — built to delegate real work with reproducible and reliable outcomes.
We’re a team of researchers, engineers, product builders, and go-to-market folks who’ve shipped LLMs, SaaS platforms, and video-gen products to millions.
I’ve never been more bullish about a company — or more grateful for the people behind it. I’m lucky to have them with me.

Now the story of scaling happens. Let’s see how Pokee’s AI magic transforms how people work.

Now join our journey at https://t.co/Do4SAilTYx!

Onward!

[Shangtong Zhang @ShangtongZhang]

I started to learn Lean a few months ago. Now finally complete my first Lean project! With about 10K lines of code, I formalized the a.s. convergence of Q learning and linear TD. Hope AI can formalize more RL theory in the future! https://t.co/r8e34FLB9J

[Zheqing (Bill) Zhu @ZheqingZhu]

We are hosting an official @MicrosoftIgnite event with @Microsoft and @p72vc Point72 Ventures on Microsoft Mountain View Campus on 11/18 and we are inviting you to join us! You will get to meet Microsoft President of Developer Divisions, Microsoft Regional CEO/COO, top VCs including Point72 Ventures, top startup founders and of course us, @Pokee_AI! Sign up below on the Luma link and space is limited!

https://t.co/NgU2rpRDwn

[Pokee AI @Pokee_AI]

What. A. Week. 🤯 Since launching Pokee, the community has been cooking. From “5 prompts = hours of work saved” to 27-step research pipelines, you’re all proving that agents can feel like DM’ing a friend—and still do serious work. Here are a few of our favorites! 🚀

Six prompts → a full “AI news → Slack” agent. — @jonah_lipsitt

No YAML, no node wiring, no setup week. Just tell Pokee: “I want AI news summarized and posted to Slack daily.” It handled source discovery, ranking, drafting, and delivery—then explained each step. This is what level-up looks like.

[Pokee AI @Pokee_AI]

Forget about OpenAI Agent Builder or n8n. Building Agents should be as simple as DM’ing someone.

🎉Introducing Pokee AI: a new platform designed to make building agents so simple, it feels like asking a friend!

[Pokee AI @Pokee_AI]

We built a little magic. It goes live tomorrow.

[Zheqing (Bill) Zhu @ZheqingZhu]

In just 48 hours, PokeeResearch 7B got over 410 stars and 250 forks. And is highlighted by @verl_project as one of the highlight projects. This is super encouraging to us and @Pokee_AI will keep delivering the best open source software to the community!
https://t.co/Py1sNBSYDi

[Pokee AI @Pokee_AI]

Open. Source. SOTA. Deep. Research. 🚀

Today, we’re releasing PokeeResearch-7B, a SOTA open-source deep research agent that outperforms all other 7B deep research agents. And, we are open-sourcing both the weights and inference code on @huggingface!

We're additionally excited to have partnered with vLLM @vllm_project, SGLang @sgl_project, and verl @verl_project on training and inference pipelines.

We can’t wait to see what you all build with PokeeResearch!

🤗• Hugging Face Model: https://t.co/pFegN55uJ4
🌐• Webpage: https://t.co/17n9Nw8p8F
📋• ArXiv: https://t.co/zTrpC0srGO
🔗• Github Repo: https://t.co/FevODN9oXY

[Pokee AI @Pokee_AI]

We love attention. We love our partners at @Google more.

Our launch has shifted 24 hours to Wednesday at 9am PDT in order to account for @GoogleAIStudio's drop tomorrow💙

[Pokee AI @Pokee_AI]

🚨 We’re reaching out to a few of you in DMs with early access to something huge.

This is one of the first major open-source drops of its kind in the U.S., and it’s almost here.

If you’ve already heard from us, you’re in. If not, no worries! we still have a few spots left before launch next week.

👇 Drop “POKEE” in the comments to lock in early access before we go live!

[Zheqing (Bill) Zhu @ZheqingZhu]

OpenAI just copied n8n with Agent Builder.

But it doesn’t solve the real pain:
brittle tools, manual configs, if-elses, for-loops
We’re solving it with our model&infra.

⚡ Join us: https://t.co/dPdFDaJCXA

Build with us. Get early access + free GPT, Gemini, and Claude credits

[Pokee AI @Pokee_AI]

Pokee AI Makes a Dinosaur Room 🦖🔥
From plain walls to a full-on Jurassic vibe… you have to see this.
AI isn’t just smart — it’s creative.
Comment 'pokee' to receive the prompt!
#PokeeAI #AIcreation #AItool #chatgpt5 #sora2invitecode

[Zheqing (Bill) Zhu @ZheqingZhu]

Excited that @Pokee_AI is featured by @a16z as one of the benchmark AI agents for intelligent AI workflows and AI-native office suite! Will continue to ship the most intelligent AI agent stack with the most scalable and efficient foundation AI agent models along side the most comprehensive tool ecosystem across the internet. Now back to work ⚒️

[Zheqing (Bill) Zhu @ZheqingZhu]

Big news! @Pokee_AI is now a part of @MicrosoftforStartups. Excited to tap into Azure credits, AI tools, and a global customer network to scale faster and smarter. #MicrosoftforStartups #BuiltwithMfS