# Kaichao You

> Kaichao You is project lead and lead maintainer. vLLM 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

Project lead and lead maintainer.

- GitHub: https://github.com/youkaichao

## What Kaichao builds

- [vLLM](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vllm.md), graded C, 58/100, in Local AI. vLLM is an open-source inference and serving engine for open-weight language models. `vllm serve` runs an HTTP server with OpenAI-compatible, Anthropic Messages, embedding, reranking and transcription routes on the owner's own GPUs or CPUs. Project lead and lead maintainer, researched 2026-10-28.

## Works with

- [Robert Shaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/robert-shaw/), Project lead and lead maintainer
- [Simon Mo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/simon-mo/), Project lead and lead maintainer
- [Woosuk Kwon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/woosuk-kwon/), Project lead and lead maintainer
- [Zhuohan Li](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/zhuohan-li/), Project lead and lead maintainer

## Questions

### Who is Kaichao You?

Kaichao You is project lead and lead maintainer.

### What does vLLM project (PyTorch Foundation) make?

Anchor Terminal lists vLLM from vLLM project (PyTorch Foundation). vLLM is an open-source inference and serving engine for open-weight language models. vllm serve runs an HTTP server with OpenAI-compatible, Anthropic Messages, embedding, reranking and transcription routes on the owner's own GPUs or CPUs.

### How are Kaichao's tools graded?

vLLM is graded C, 58 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://vllm.ai/
- https://vllm.ai/contact
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLLM

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