# Bill Yao

> Bill Yao is co-founder. Novita AI on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)
- Updated: 2026-10-28

Co-founder.

## What Bill builds

- [Novita AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/novita-ai.md), graded D, 53.5/100, in Model APIs & 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.

## Works with

- [Junyu Huang](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/junyu-huang/), Co-founder and COO

## Questions

### Who is Bill Yao?

Bill Yao is co-founder.

### What does Novita AI make?

Anchor 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.

### How are Bill's tools graded?

Novita AI is graded D, 53.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://novita.ai/

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