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  "markdown": "Co-founder.\n\n## What Bill builds\n\n- [Novita AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/novita-ai.md), graded D, 53.5/100, in Model APIs \u0026 inference. Novita AI is a hosted inference API for open-weight language models, with embeddings, reranking, image, video and speech models on the same key. It answers OpenAI-style calls at api.novita.ai with a Bearer key. Co-founder, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Junyu Huang](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/junyu-huang/), Co-founder and COO\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Bill Yao?\n\nBill Yao is co-founder.\n\n### What does Novita AI make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Novita AI from Novita AI. Novita AI is a hosted inference API for open-weight language models, with embeddings, reranking, image, video and speech models on the same key. It answers OpenAI-style calls at api.novita.ai with a Bearer key.\n\n### How are Bill's tools graded?\n\nNovita AI is graded D, 53.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://novita.ai/\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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