Kaarel Kaarelson

Kaarel Kaarelson

I live in San Francisco and grew up in Estonia. I use this site to keep track of what I'm working on, what I'm reading, and things I think are worth sharing.

Projects

  • Cursor for Sheets - Finalist in Google Gemini hackathon. Built things in 6h that Google hasn't shipped in 3 years.
  • OpenAI CyberSecurity Grant recipient
  • Y Combinator AI Startup School 2025 - I asked Fei-Fei Li a question and, surprisingly, it got 180k views on youtube.
  • Nuclear robotics research with UT Austin
  • Drone detection CNN on event cameras - 1st place in Darkstar Defence Hackathon. Turned down an offer to start a company from a unicorn founder to move to West instead.
  • #1 employee at AI lab backed by Khosla Ventures - Recruited mid-college by Meta/Stanford/UPenn researchers. Balanced math classes and work simultaneously back in Eastern Europe.
  • 3D CAD AI Agent - Top 2 in Entrepreur First hackathon. Made gpt-4 generate 3d engineering designs, before it was cool.