We have been quietly building a new type of general frontier model since mid-2024. Current generation LLMs are optimized for chatting with humans via algorithms such as instruction-tuning and RLHF. That algorithm was pioneered by our co-founder Diogo Almeida with InstructGPT as an early researcher at OpenAI, and was the algorithm used to train ChatGPT. It has produced models that make incredible chat bot assistants, yet are too fundamentally flawed to automate large amounts of real work.

We have created the first Large Programmable Model (LPM), a new type of general model that is directly optimized for interfacing with software, algorithms, data, and decision making. Its high reliability and programmability enables the foundation for creating AI systems and agents that will transform the economy.

Co-founders

Diogo Almeida, CEO

• AI Research (10 yrs)
• Ex-OpenAI (5 yrs), ex-Google Brain
• Co-invented InstructGPT, the methods that lead to ChatGPT and GPT4.
• Fun fact: made it to the top 30 in League of Legends in North America and top 2 in Hearthstone 🎮

Erik Gafni, CTO

• AI Research & Software (14 yrs)
• Ex-founder (2018, Ravel, multi-modal AI for DNA-seq)
• Early employee at 2 unicorns: Freenome (>$1B raised, AI) and Invitae ($6.5B+, IPO)
• Fun fact: placed 44th at Chess Nationals in Elementary School ♟️

Sasha Sheng, COO

• AI Research & Software (12 yrs)
• Ex-research engineer @ Meta/FAIR (7 yrs), published at NeurIPS/ECVV
• Ex-founder/ Executive Director, AI Engineer Foundation
• Fun fact: won 7 hackathons in 2023; addicted to caffeine and Barry’s Bootcamp ☕

Technical Staff

Brian Basham

• ML & Software (10 yrs)
• Ex-Google Brain, led development on medical imaging data annotation platform
• Scale AI, Engineering Manager
• Ex-founder (2023, Thyself.ai, AI emotional support)
• Fun fact: coached Ghana's International Math Olympiad team ➕➖

Elise Liu

• AI/ML, Product Management, & Consulting (12 yrs)
• Ex-Meta, BCG - led Meta's US midterms war room in 2018 and viral post detection in 2020
• Early employee at unicorns (Human Interest, Clubhouse)
• Fun fact: once a billionaire on Neopets before she was banned by her mother

Clayton Ward

• Software (9 yrs)
• Ex-Autodesk, Amazon, SIG; built systems for access controls, ad rank, and order flow
• Fun fact: has better taste in buds than tastebuds 😛

Jeff Lin

• Software (14 yrs)
• Member of the initial team building out mobile at Facebook
• Ex-founder (2019, Signal Biosystems)
• Stanford guest lecturer
• Fun fact: has been to 10 Burning Mans in a row 🔥

Val Chocklett

• AI Eng & Data Science (10 yrs)
• Lead Data Scientist building official contact tracing solutions at Healthy Together
• Founding ML Engineer at Trill AI
• Fun fact: state pole-vaulting champion in high school 👟

Noam Samuel

• 10 years backend engineering (API and product focus). Stripe, Square.
• Fun fact: Like a Disney character, can and will burst into song over anything. 🎤

** Ted Kalaw**

• Software (12 yrs)
• Ex-Meta, Ripple - developer platform and tooling
• Built tools to help UnitedMasters discover new artists
• Fun fact: is a bass music and hip hop DJ 🎧

Brian Smiley

• Newly minted Software Engineer
• But an expert already
• Fun fact: wears a carpet as a jacket 🧥

You?

• Has previously built big things
• 11x coder: Has put in their 11,000 hours coding
• Obsessed with solving real-world problems with AI and making LLMs reliable
• Fun fact: tell us something interesting about yourself!

Join Our Team

What Makes Us Exciting

• You will be working with a small world-class team at the bleeding edge of AI Research
• You will be using AI to solve real world problems reliably (and get 9s of reliability)
• We are still a small group of AI veterans who are excited to mentor the next generation

Ideal Candidate

• Has spent a lot of time trying to make LLMs useful and understands their limitations
• Ready to go all-in