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AI researcher and entrepreneur whose work includes Databricks’ Dolly models, AI-assisted financial research and studies of social and economic networks.
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Alex Atallah
OpenRouter CEO and co-founder whose AI work includes model routing, browser-based model access and research on AI usage.
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Kwindla Hultman Kramer
Daily cofounder and CEO working on Pipecat, voice-agent evaluation, and the infrastructure for real-time AI conversations.
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Nyla Worker
AI product manager whose work spans production inference, synthetic training data and embodied conversational characters.
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Adept
An AI company whose 2022–2024 work combined software-action models and enterprise workflows; in June 2024 it narrowed its focus as co-founders and some staff joined Amazon.
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Chai Research
A consumer AI company connecting user-created characters with engagement research, crowdsourced model evaluation, and custom inference infrastructure.
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