I’m Taehoon, an AI engineer.

I started working on deep learning in 2015 when TensorFlow came out.

I was alone in Korea, didn’t have much resources, so I implemented code and open sourced the implementations for 20 research papers by myself.

This led me to becoming the #1 followed GitHub profile in Korea, and getting offers from all the top AI companies.

I was at OpenAI from 2018 ~ 2020 when it was just 50 people, worked on scaling GPT-2 to GPT-3.

I then solo founded a V Tuber app, bootstrapped it for 3 years, acquired by the fastest growing gaming company in Korea.

I spent the past year training image diffusion models and now working on something new.

If I know X will lead to Y, I execute. I’ve done this for 10 years, and it never fails.

• Solved numerous engineering challenges in creative ways.
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• I implemented Apple’s first AI research paper in 3 days and got an invitation from Head of AI @ Apple.
  • It was Chuseok and I coded until morning at my grandma’s place.
• To reshape my life, I flew to China, Oregon, and Pohang — each destination tied to love, self-reflection, and a founding engineer.
• I hacked a dating app and met 50 girls in 3 months to overcome my fear of conversation.

2024 - : Love & fury: Trained a state-of-the art virtual-try on model from scratch

Jam on GenAI app with us!

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